u/Winter-Equipment-425

I recently was weened off my lacosamide, and ever since, I have been waking up in the middle of the night, terrified. I will suddenly wake up, scared, thinking I am hearing or seeing something that isn't there. I might head foot steps, see someone (like my boyfriend), and hear voices. I can move around and stuff, usually too scared to do so. I will also be aware enough to ask questions, but I'm typically really out of it.

Such as, one time, I thought I had been bitten in the neck, and thought the person I was hallucinating had done it, so I kept asking them if they did it. But when they wouldn't respond, I realized they might not be real and started to calm down a bit but felt delirious.

Is this something that can be attributed to PNES? My seizures have increased ten fold after having no medication, so I figured maybe this was a form of nocturnal seizure/aura? I do hallucinate with my regular seizures.

I was in the ER yesterday because my neurologist is weening me off my Lacosamide. It had helped me, brought my seizure frequency and severity down, but they found no evidence of epilepsy during my two eeg. One was an hour long eeg, and the other was a 24 hour video eeg where I had a seizure induced by coffee (with several nurses approval).

Weening off the meds has spiked my seizures to become near daily, and I had one that just would not stop and went on for around an hour. The right side of my body kept tensing, my eyes would go back and forth, but my right eyes was closed and scrunched/twitching while my left eye was open. My chest muscles kept tensing, which made my breathing rapid and shallow. And sometimes tense so hard that I couldn't breathe, or my body just forgot how to breathe in general. I was conscious the whole time. Since getting off the Lacosamide, I've been having a lot more auditory and visual hallucinations, and the constant static vision and after-images have become worse.

When my boyfriend got me to the hospital, they injected me with Ativan (Lorazepam) and my seizure almost immediately stopped. I had heard that type of medication isn't really effective for PNES, so I am confused. Is it effective for stopping PNES or not?

I had just helped this friend with an emergency $40 expense without question. They said rent had gone through, they had other expenses, and they helped a family member out with $100~. They had also recently switched in their car for a different one because they didn't really connect with their last car, there was functionally nothing wrong with it.

They then told me that they are going to start playing a game where they have a $5 weekly payment, not including if they happen to want something new in the game was well, such as for their avatar or other things. I had told them that because they are willing to add a videogame subscription given their financial situation (which I don't have a full grasp of, but I did just help them with an emergency $40 expense), I won't help them with future emergency costs.

Am I the asshole for saying that? Am I nit picking and judging when I shouldn't? I worry for them, but I'm afraid I offended them. They said I was being manipulative and using their small wants against them. Am I?

Edit: I want to make it clear that they have never asked for money before this, and they said they were going to pay me back in a week. Which I know they will. They never acted entitled about the money and thanked me profusely.