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Topic: Diagnostic Dilemmas and Testing

Simple Partial Seizure?

08/2012 | 5 Comments

I wish someone could help me identify and understand the episodes I have. I'm 26 years old, and for as long as I can remember I have been experiencing...
Pupil Dilation during seizures....

07/2012 | 3 Comments

Background: So, have been having simple Partial and Partial-Complex seizures (with loss of awareness/loss of consciousness) since 2008. All earlier...
Seizure or spell?

07/2012 | 11 Comments

Ok..I am 62 yrs old. I started having seizures around Sept-Oct 2010. After wearing an ambulatory EEG for 3 days, the neuro said there was a lot of...
Finding solution ...

07/2012 | 0 Comments

Hello. First, my english is not so good so sorry for that. My name is Allesandro and I live in Slovenia (Europe). 27 years old with epileptic, as far...
Test issues

07/2012 | 1 Comments

I have been in the Ep. Video Monitoring Unit 3 times in 11 months. I would have events that would not show up on the eeg. They even wake me up. But...
Tentative diagnosis

06/2012 | 0 Comments

Hi everyone I'm after some insight. In 2005 I started getting what felt like little black outs whilst driving. This started after becoming very I'll...
Video EEG questions

06/2012 | 1 Comments

Next Monday I will be going to KU Epilepsy Center for a video EEG. I've had two EEGs, two CTs, and an MRI. They've never found anything with my EEGs...
I think I just had a seizure??!!??

05/2012 | 2 Comments

Okay so I'm 15 years old, I'm a girl, and I'm typically very healthy. I eat super healthy and I exercise a lot, I don't know if that makes a...
Strep and Seizures - tonsil removal

04/2012 | 2 Comments

Hi, Our son has been homebound with 20-25 tonic seziures daily. He is twelve and has had E for 5 years. He had atypical sbsence seizures for nearly 4...
Best pediatric neurologists in NC?

04/2012 | 3 Comments

We are trying to get my two year old daughter diagnosed w possible absence seizures. The pediatric neurologist we saw in Greensboro, NC was not...
Epilepsy or not? Share your views plz

04/2012 | 1 Comments

Hi! One of my relatives was diagnosed with a cyst on his brain. He had had one tonic-clonic seizure and, perhaps, one partial seizure. A few months...
when does it feel real!

04/2012 | 2 Comments

hi, i have just been told that the dr. thinks my 8yr old son has JMepilepsy. my son's grandfather has grand mal epilepsy. it doesn't feel real yet. i...
Amnesia Seizures!

04/2012 | 5 Comments

Hi there, so I should preface everything by saying that I have not yet been diagnosed with epilepsy, and quite honestly, hope that I never will. But...

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