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Topic: Diagnostic Dilemmas and Testing

Hunger before seizure feeling

05/2015 | 0 Comments

Last Feb, 2015 I had a seizure. Have not had one for past 10 years. Since this seizure I have to eat every 2 hours or I get a empty pit feeling in my...
I think I might be having seizures?

04/2015 | 0 Comments

I'm not sure what's been happening, but for the past couple of year sometimes when there is an immediate increase in temperature I get extreamly...
Was it epilesy?

04/2015 | 1 Comments

I am 26 years old now. When I was about 11 years old,there were two events that led my diagnosis of epilesy by local doctor (non neurological...
eeg tech did a lot of clicking

04/2015 | 3 Comments

Hello all! Today I had my first eeg I actually managed to stay awake through. I was diagnosed back in 2007 with frontal lobe epilepsy after...
No Solid answers after EEG

03/2015 | 2 Comments

I had a grand mal seizure back at the beginning of January of this year. I finally had a sleep deprived EEG in February. Immeadiately after my...
Latest trip to the ER

03/2015 | 3 Comments

I have had tonic/clinic seizures since I was a teen. A couple weeks ago I went to the ER for my seizures (turns out from hormones I was about to start...
Right hemispheric slowing on EEG

03/2015 | 1 Comments

Hello, My 2 year old autistic son had a seizure 3 days ago. He went unresponsive face down on the floor and I immediately called EMS. He was in...
burning feet

03/2015 | 0 Comments

Hi, My 17 year old daughter has a partial complex seizure disorder and has been on Keppra for 11 years (other meds before that.) In December we raised...
First it is, then it isn't....

03/2015 | 0 Comments

Hi there. I'm having a problem with my neurologist and doctors in general. Here it is. I'm 23 and female. All my life, I've had spells where I stare...
HELP!!!!

03/2015 | 0 Comments

Some background: I had horrible migraines as a adolescent, and young adult. And off and on in middle age. Now they are surfacing as dizziness...
Could These Have Been Seizures?

02/2015 | 0 Comments

About a month ago I was in the shower, when out of nowhere I felt extremely weak and light headed. Only a couple seconds later I remember vaguely...
Syncope VS Seizure?

02/2015 | 1 Comments

Hi guys! My name is Melissa and I am a 21 year old girl with a pretty uninteresting medical history, that is until recently. About a year and a half...

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