Brains in Outer Space

[tinhuviel]

Today I went back to see my Extremely Good-looking Neurologist Dr. Pilch. The man is gorgeous, but he's always running late on his appointments, which drives me crazy. I'm on time, why can you be be? Eh? Eh?! It's a good thing he always has interesting reading material in his exam rooms. Whilst I waited the forty minutes past my appointment time, I enjoyed a leisurely read of Discover magazine, which was chock full of science quirkiness, paleontology, and overall geeky goodness. The doc walked in right in the middle of my reading an article on black holes and he just burst with glee that I was reading something like that, citing the fact that he came very close to physics as his field rather than neurology. When I told him that didn't surprise me, he asked me why I said that, was it because of his weird way of thinking? I told him no, but because of how how we believe the brain works pretty much mirrors images of space, but on a much smaller scale. Well, then he got all excited about how I'd twigged onto the micro-verse and macro-verse, and he began yammering about how it doesn't just end with the brain and outer space, but goes all the way down to the atom. It was fun to watch Dr. Easy-on-the-Eyes geek out so merrily.

In between his bouts of extreme science geekery, he changed my migraine meds to the generic Topamax and made notes in my chart indicating that I hadn't had anymore black-outs in the past three months. He then said he wanted to see me back in March, wished me a happy holiday, and scampered off blissfully to his next patient. I wonder what he talks about with his other patients. I'm betting it's not black holes and the firing off of neurons in a person's brain. Betcha anything.

Comments

[gatheringrivers]

FYI on Topamax - A friend of mine has reported that while ON Topamax, they essentially had about zero brain cells to comprehend social situations long-term.

Same friend also reported issues with food - all meat smelled bad enough it would send her hurling, and sweet stuff was at least semi-nauseating.

So just keep that in mind as time goes on - weird effects may be Topamax related instead of other stuff.

(You can probably find more info on the Crazymeds site.)