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Topic: Diagnostic Dilemmas and Testing

Hopefully some answers, finally!

05/2007 | 1 Comments

Been awhile since my last post. Have been waiting months for a bed to come open at our local hospital. Things are looking up. We changed neurologists...
So many diagnosis?

05/2007 | 1 Comments

The neurologist said it sounds like I had been experiencing seizures. Went on this great website and yes it sounds like the symptoms of Partial...
Carbon monoxide and epilepsy

05/2007 | 4 Comments

Our family was exposed to low-level chronic carbon monoxide over this past winter. We discovered it when my 13-year-old son started having seizures...
TLE Partial seizures and vomiting

05/2007 | 1 Comments

Hi my names Sarah and I first started experiencing 'funny turns' quite a few years ago when i was 19-20.?? The specialist sent me for eeg and mri...
Brain stem epilepsy and psychsomatic???

05/2007 | 2 Comments

Hi I'm new here-sorry this is long. I have been operated twice on my brainstem (and have been a little disabled since then). Since my first operation...
MAYO CLINIC ARIZONA

04/2007 | 0 Comments

Can anybody tell me if they heard about this clinic, have they been treated there for E and would they recommend it. I just want to know people's good...
EEG testing again!!!!! UGH

04/2007 | 2 Comments

OK, can you believe this. Today I put on an ambulatory unit, the previous 5 of 7 days I had seizures and I am hoping to have an event recorded. So far...
PRE Seziure

04/2007 | 2 Comments

Has anyone here heard of a "pre seziure"? I had tremors & stiffness yesterday (I stayed awake the whole time) and went to the ER and they said it was...
No EEGs

04/2007 | 0 Comments

I was diagnosed with Ep after having a brain tumor found and removed and as such I have MRI's every year to track stuff and what not- but what has...
Could seizures be psychosomatic?

04/2007 | 11 Comments

I have had epilepsy for eleven years now. God, it sounds like so long when I say that. Anyway as with most people's seizures my doctor can give me...
MEG tests

04/2007 | 3 Comments

Does anyone know anything about the MEG test and how important are they
Seizure? What type?

04/2007 | 1 Comments

Recently I was at work and performing Reception type duties. As I was entering data into the computer, I was also speaking with a customer. I started...
Help, am feeling a little lost.....

04/2007 | 3 Comments

I am not even sure if I belong on here. Where to start... I have had these funny episodes at night when waking up, or rather I wake up cause I can...
My chronic seizures stopped in 1997

04/2007 | 0 Comments

My story of being diagnosed with Epilepsy and all of the testing and drugs that I was on for 9 years is a long one. My neurologist said I would be on...
Does a positive EEG mean Epilepsy?

04/2007 | 1 Comments

We just found out today that my daughter had an abnormal EEG result. I insisted to the ER doctor 2 weeks ago that she had a seizure. My aunt was...
EEG & MRI

04/2007 | 2 Comments

Hi! I really haven't felt that I am epileptic. Not since childhood (around 4, when I used to have simple partial seizures that I never told anyone...
bitemporal abnormalities - epilepsy?

04/2007 | 0 Comments

following a 90hr VEEG the report said "the interictal EEG shows independent bitemporal abnormalities, more marked on the right. Focal discharges are...
sleeping...

04/2007 | 0 Comments

also when i sleep sometimes i will wake up but what wakes me up is a startle of my whole body- it's like my body jumps- but no one is touching me or...

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