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Topic: Diagnostic Dilemmas and Testing

EEG Monitoring Unit

07/2007 | 6 Comments

I'm going to an EEG monitoring unit next month, and I don't know what to expect. What happens? Who is there? Does a doctor visit you once a day or two...
dejavou

07/2007 | 4 Comments

I have episodes where i experience dejavou,for exaple the other day i was walking down the road and it happend it builds up slowley my hart starts to...
Tests, tests, and more tests

06/2007 | 0 Comments

First of all sorry I have been away for so long. Things have been just crazy here between my girls' cardio appts and my neuro appts. So far the CT and...
What's going on with me?

06/2007 | 0 Comments

I visited my doctor for anxiety many months ago, and he prescribed sertraline an antidepressant. I had a massive seizure out of the blue (im 22), and...
am i having night seizures?

06/2007 | 3 Comments

Hello, Recently I have been having reccuring dreams of passing out. Sometimes I dream that I am drunk (when I am actually sober), and I remember...
I feel lost in the woods!

06/2007 | 2 Comments

my neuro is too busy! nurses call me up but tell me they can't reveal any inforo to me! big dark secret? So I got my own MRI it says I have thinning...
four years and still having sez. HELP!!

06/2007 | 2 Comments

I don't think I can take one more day of this. I was diagnosed with tonic-clonic and absance sez. four years ago and we have yet to find a combanation...
My Epilepsy

06/2007 | 0 Comments

Ever get tired of those doctor's telling you your seizure was because your Dilantin level was to low no matter how much you take ? Give me a new one...
Need some advice on Nocturnal seizures

05/2007 | 5 Comments

Hello everyone, I can first say that I don't think I have epilepsy, but I know many of you will understand and may be able to help me. I have already...
ASPARTAME ANYONE???

05/2007 | 42 Comments

Wondering if Aspartame also known as nutrasweet, (common sweetener in sugar free sodas and sugar free gum) is a trigger for anyone?
Thinks son had seizure- Need advice

05/2007 | 2 Comments

We think my son who is almost four had a seizure at his 3rd birthday party. He was acting alittle reserved but i just thought he was alittle tired. I...
TLE--simple partials generalizing?

05/2007 | 1 Comments

I post pretty sporadically, so for those of you that have never read anything of mine, here's my "adventure" in a nutshell: I have been tentatively...
pineal gland cist?

05/2007 | 1 Comments

Hey I'm 16 and just got an MRI, I get them often and this time a cist appeared in my pineal(sp?) gland. Has this happened to anyone else?
adult onset epilepsy

05/2007 | 21 Comments

Looking to see if there are any other women out there with adult onset epilepsy with the complication of migraines and breakthrough complex partial...

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