[DOCTOR AMY BUCKLAND] JULY 9, 1997 NEW PATIENT COMING IN FOR EXPERIMENTAL TREATMENT FOR A CURRENTLY UNDIAGNOSED CHRONIC CONDITION. SEEMS TO BE NEUROLOGICAL IN NATURE, CAUSING PATIENT DISTRESS. SYMPTOMS INCLUDE HALLUCINATIONS, PERIODS OF TEMPORARY LOSS OF SENSES, MUSCLE WEAKNESS, DIZZINESS, IRRITABILITY, ETC.
MANY OF THESE SYMPTOMS WOULD SEEM TO ALIGN WITH SOME SORT OF MENTAL DISORDER, HOWEVER, MANY OF THESE HALLUCINATIONS SEEM TO BE MORE THAN A SIMPLE PRODUCT OF PARANOIA OR SCHIZOPHRENIA. ALTHOUGH DIZZINESS AND MUSCLE WEAKNESS ARE ALWAYS PRESENT, THESE FLARE-UPS IN SYMPTOMS OCCUR IN SIMILAR PATTERNS AND DURATIONS, WHICH IS DISSIMILAR TO THE NATURE OF HOW SCHIZOPHRENIA WORKS.
THE LOSS OF SENSATION IS ALSO PECULIAR: MANY PATIENTS HAVE DESCRIBED TO ME ABOUT FEELING THINGS THEY LOGICALLY CANNOT KNOW ARE THERE, AND HOW THEIR MEDICATION HELPS TO REDUCE THESE UNWANTED SENSATIONS. HOWEVER, PATIENT DESCRIBES BEING "ROBBED" OF VISION, OLFACTORY, OR AUDIBLE SENSATIONS FOR A PERIOD OF TIME UNTIL THEIR "RETURN." I FIND IT ODD TO USE SUCH VERBIAGE. AS IF THE PATIENT'S SENSES HAVE SIMPLY GONE ON AN ERRAND.