Here it is Saturday night and I can't have a beer, a glass of wine or a shot of whiskey. All because of my drug habit. I'm talking about my Zonisamide of course. I'm taking 50mg a night and alcohol is contra-indicated.
More Zonisamide gives me something of a breathing problem. I was on 50mg in the AM with breakfast and 50mg with dinner and I had difficulty catching my breath. I wonder what the 100mg capsule was doing to my breathing while I slept when I was on that in the evening.
Well, that's water over the dam as they say. Or is it under the bridge as it were.
Each day I take 50mg of Zonisamide and that seems to resolve the breathing issue. The headache/neck problem isn't too bad as long as I get plenty of rest.
Which I did today.
The Pulmonologist I saw early in December said that my lungs look great for (A) somebody my age and (B) somebody who has been through the amount of chemo that I have been through.
She thinks that given my symptoms the Zonisamide may have anesthetized my mid brain which controls breathing. What a little problem that would be.
And since I take my daily dose at night, I should have another sleep study to check to see that it doesn't do that at current dosage. If the neurologists don't order it, she will.
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