I have been waking in the night due to painful and tight hands for the past few weeks. I was just prescribed Baclofen the day before all this started, for spasticity. The 1st night I awoke this way my rt. hand was like a claw! It was difficult and painful to straighten out. Every night now I wake to turn and my hands hurt so! Especially my right. I don't know if it's coincidental. It seems the Baclofen is working for the rest of my body and neuro recommends another dose and I agree, but I am afraid.
I am concerned that maybe this is causing nocturnal seiz. I have daytime complex partials (simple, too but my diag is CP). I am not sure if it's caus'g daytime probs, partly because I don't know if the drowsiness would cause some symptoms I am having.
I have a lesion in the left temporal lobe (found '98), demylination. I think it's curious that no symptoms until I had a textbook CP 2001,which led to epilepsy diag.I have seiz,rt side difficulties, abnorm. exam. Drs. suspect MS, but only 1 lesion all this time. (My neuro diag MS and retracted)
I am currently taking baclofen 10mgx2,Trileptal 900mg total,atenolol+verapamil(for inappropriate sinus tachy and neurcardio. syncope= dysauto.), zanaflex 2mg, oxycontin 10mgx2(c-spine radiculop.). I stopped taking my neurontin reg.,because I felt funny when baclophen was added. All my meds are low doses.
I thought I would stop my pm dose of baclofen to see what happened, but it might make the spasticity worse. I don't know what to do. Please give me your thoughts as to what is going on and what I could try.
Thank you