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Topic: Diagnostic Dilemmas and Testing

SEM 1a

03/2007 | 0 Comments

Hello I was wandering if anyone has ever heard or has had this test its the SEM 1a test. Its a blood test. The doctor ordered this for my son and I...
is a veeg always right

03/2007 | 17 Comments

My daughter had a VEEG last week they haven't told us the results yet but the Machine kept comming up saying seizure in big letters yet she was asleep...
PME

03/2007 | 1 Comments

Has anyone here gone through the diagnosis process for this type of Epilepsy? Can you tell me what it involves? Is there any other disease that has...
Need a few questions answered

03/2007 | 1 Comments

Hello My name is Tiffany and I am new to Epilepsy.com,I was admitted into icu a few weeks back and the doctors seem to think that it was seizures...
Interpreting EEG results

03/2007 | 4 Comments

Does an abnormal EEG automatically mean seizure disorder? Thats what I understood it to mean, but a lot of my family and friends are saying to get a...
NEW EEG???

03/2007 | 1 Comments

Okay, so I had a second EEG done, and this one I'm thinking shows a lot of temporal lobe activithy, which is where I originally thought the siezures...
Does he have epilepsy?

03/2007 | 1 Comments

My father has complaints of sudden real strong deja-vus, along with strange and strong smells (reminding him of an electrical outlet on fire). He says...
Son with seizures

03/2007 | 0 Comments

My son is twenty three and autistic. He had an MRI a while back, probably two years ago, with a finding that a part of the brain, (The gangli...
PLEASE HELP I AM A WRECK

03/2007 | 8 Comments

My 9 yr old son had a sleep deprived eeg on monday and they called me this afternoon to tell me that the eeg was abnormal in the frontal lobe and some...
Good news from EEG!

03/2007 | 0 Comments

Hi everyone! I am only out of the hospital 2 days ago from having an EEG done monitoring 24/7 for a week with video as well. And I just wanted to...
Off for Testing

03/2007 | 0 Comments

Hello Everyone, Just found out yesterday that I will be admitted to the hospital today for further testing towards right frontal lobe surgery. I am...
Seizures in the bathroom

03/2007 | 15 Comments

My son has 90% of his drop seizures in the bathroom, either while urinating, brushing his teeth or washing his hands... I have changed the lighting...
5 yr old son had EEG...

03/2007 | 1 Comments

My son is 5, had an unexplained seizure last week. Neurological test in dr's office seemed fine, blood tests were fine. Had an eeg last week. Called...
Puzzled and confused

02/2007 | 1 Comments

I have been having seizures for 6 years, starting about 6 months after a car accident. I have been treated with Valium, Depakote, Tegretol and...
5 yr old-ambulatory EEG

02/2007 | 1 Comments

My 5 yr. old son is going to be having an 24 hr. ambulatory EEG, hopefully within the month, to see if it is wise to take him off Tegretol. He's been...
8 YEAR OLD'S UNDIAGNOSED EPISODES

02/2007 | 6 Comments

My daughter has been having unusual episodes for a little over a year. She complains of things seeming very far away, like she is looking through a...
daughter's funny feelings

02/2007 | 3 Comments

My 6 1/2 year old daughter has had funny feelings from 2005. During these feeings she talks of things being far away, "grizzly" noises, me sounding...
Pregnant, Seizures & a Cyst

02/2007 | 0 Comments

Wow I read about Eclampsia, it sounds like what my 24 year old Daughter is experiencing. She has never had a seizure, no history of seizures in our...

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