Tuesday, Updated.

I emailed the neurologist re: the B-vitamin levels a few days ago: 

"While I have your attention - too - a quick question?When in for testing after seizures of unknown origin - are thiamine levels checked? Would my levels be available online? I cannot find a thiamine level in any of my bloodwork - anywhere."  

It is highly unlikely that your thiamine level would have been checked as a matter of routine after having had a seizure, since thiamine deficiency is not generally an issue with seizures except in rare circumstances, such as if doctors were suspecting that you were an alcoholic or were suffering from chronic malnutrition.

I asked him because I have symptoms that fit these issues, and have, for years.  But, I don't know why.

Is there a specific reason why you are concerned about thiamine?

I guess maybe he thought I was a closet drinker or something - which is so far from the truth it's funny. 

Today he is ordering a B1 test at a lab close to me, because he says:

" I  do not see any record of a thiamine level for you. Why don't you let me know where you would normally get your blood drawn and I can place an order for it to be done at your convenience? That will settle the issue fairly easily."

Although we're both pretty sure it's going to be normal, since my other levels have been within normal limits, and nothing has been that easily red-flagged.

Hopefully he will set up a standing lab order so that I can get in at any time.

I'm planning to get in to my old PCP's lab tomorrow for a quick blood draw, he called it in.  Like I said, I assume my levels are indeed normal, but this will be another item scratched off the list.  It would just be a simple cure.

(I had a complex partial seizure after I wrote this post.  Bob told me that I did the "I need sugar" charade.)

Weight 161 lbs.   *Celebratory dance!  This a "new" weight! (Not a *new new weight, but a somewhat new weight.  I think you get it.)

• Breakfast - 3 slices RTE Bacon + 1  oz boiled chicken ( I had a whole chicken in the crockpot overnight for soup, it smelled good ) both of these items were going in the soup.
• 11am Very Early Lunch - 1/2 cup homemade chicken + barley soup.
• 3pm Very Early Dinner - Repeat of lunch, plus two bites of my husband's hamburger patty.
• 6pm Snack - 1/2 of a Wicked GOOD protein bar.  Not telling.
• 9 pm Snack - 2 slices Light wheat bread, 2 slices shaved chicken breast.
• 11pm Snack - 1/2 cup Liveactive Cottage Cheese.

Exercise -

• Mall walked for about an hour, (but only a bit of it was actual "laps") because I thought it was going to rain today, and the man was home, but it didn't rain until late, so I walked outside too.  90 minutes total, about one good hard hour of walking, about two minutes "wogging."  OMG, that's so difficult at this point.  I hope to look back at this and think "Wow, I used to be such a wuss."