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Topic: Diagnostic Dilemmas and Testing

Seizure or not 3 Year old

02/2019 | 2 Comments

Hello, My 3.5 year old is a healthy child with no major issues other than seasonal viral fevers and ear infections. One day he woke up to vomit and my...
Toddler Seizures?

01/2019 | 1 Comments

If anyone has had similar symptoms with their toddlers, I'd love to hear about it. Our daughter started having strange episodes almost a year ago that...
Did I have a seizure?

01/2019 | 0 Comments

Hello, I am writing this here because i am not sure where else to ask this and this forum seems like the correct place. I am a hypoglycemic prone...
Ringing in ears and then seizure

01/2019 | 1 Comments

Hi there, I’m trying to figure out what’s going on with me? I’ve had a lot of ringing in the ears, and I thought it was related to blood pressure. But...
Diagnostic dilemmas and testing

01/2019 | 1 Comments

I am 55 years old. 10 years ago I had two provoked seizures. One from alcohol withdrawal and the other from rapid withdrawal of a anti-seizure...
De ja vu feelings

01/2019 | 1 Comments

I have had a weird few days where I have been having de ja vu feelings, my tummy tightens I know things before they happen, what someone is going to...
can this EEG waves be epileptiform?

12/2018 | 1 Comments

i have highfunctional autism and have now been in a period of misspelling words by speøling often forexample words like "applepie" as "aplepile" and...
I think i'm epileptic but im not sure.

12/2018 | 1 Comments

Im 18 years old and just finished my first semester in college. My dad has epilepsy, so does his brother, and i think either his dad or mom had it too...
Epilepsy or misdiagnosis?

11/2018 | 2 Comments

My now 3.5 year old was diagnosed with epilepsy in June, 2017 @ Tufts Floating. She was diagnosed after three "episodes" I was certain were seizures...
Need help with diagnosis issues

10/2018 | 8 Comments

I really need some help. For the past 15+ years I've had temporal lobe seizures and didn't have health insurance to get tests etc. Now that I have...
Brain Zaps/Electric Shocks

09/2018 | 1 Comments

I have been having these brain zaps that are like sudden electric jolts to my head. I dont fall out and convulse. I just instantly grab my head like I...
EEG while taking ethosuximide (Zarontin)

09/2018 | 1 Comments

My son was diagnosed with juvenile absence epilepsy nearly 18 months ago at age 12. He was started on Zarontin 250mg once per day, then bumped up to...
Med Weaning for EEG?

08/2018 | 9 Comments

My daughter just turned 6 years old and was diagnosed with Epilepsy in April. She has had 2 EEGs (one at DX, one after beginning medication) but is...

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