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Topic: Diagnostic Dilemmas and Testing

changing eeizures and lamictal

05/2013 | 2 Comments

Iam on 300 mg lamital daily and i do not know if it is even helping . Do seizures change? I have been waking up several times a night and sleeping...
Dealing with both NES and ES

05/2013 | 2 Comments

I went for week long VEEG in march had MRI showed one hippocamus significantly smaller then the other during veeg i had one small one show upand the...
Generic Keppra XR reviews

05/2013 | 2 Comments

When my neurologist offered it [Keppra] I was glad to try anything with better results, then was switched to generic, not knowing the complications...
Need help with diagnosis

03/2013 | 5 Comments

Hello, I am new to these forums and would really appreciate any insight you might have on this issue. My son (now 7) started having seizures when he...
help

02/2013 | 8 Comments

This is my second time trying to post so out this is a repeat please excuse. I was recently diagnosed with seizures. I had some difficulties while...
help

02/2013 | 0 Comments

In November I had three days where I had difficulties while driving. The first three days I became ill with headache and nausea. The next day I had...
Periods of loss of awareness (apparently)

12/2012 | 6 Comments

Hello, I'm new here - and I'm not even sure I should BE here either, but last night, my partner revealed something that shocked me. I apparently lose...
Asking for a second EEG

12/2012 | 0 Comments

I had an EEG 5 yrs ago when this all started for grand mal seizures, but since then, petit mals have started and I've become very sensitive to...
Is this a (Simple) Partial Seizure?

11/2012 | 0 Comments

I've been having, what I like to call my dizzy spells, since I was around 14/15. They're something I never get used to, and practically fear getting...
Let's Play Doctor, Shall We?

11/2012 | 2 Comments

Throughout my adolescence, a normal side-effect from a lack of sleep was an incredibly brief yet debilitating full body convulsion (1 to 2 seconds)...

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