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Topic: Diagnostic Dilemmas and Testing

What happens during a seizure exactly?

08/2006 | 1 Comments

Hi! I have a daughter who has Epilepsy and the doctors always ask me if it runs in the family. I always say no but I remembered once when I was a kid...
How does one ask for a second test?

08/2006 | 1 Comments

As you know, I've been diagnosed with partial seizures, mostly simple partial but some complex partial. I had one 20 minute EEG, which came out normal...
Should I even bother?

07/2006 | 2 Comments

For most of my life (i'm 19) i have had "episodes" where i would get dizzy and see black spots floating around and then one of my arms would shake...
duration of video EEG?

07/2006 | 13 Comments

Here I am again! I feel like I'm hogging the diagnostic dilemma forum. I need feedback on this, though. My neurologist has agreed to schedule me for a...
I feel almost sick to my stomach......

07/2006 | 1 Comments

Hey all, I go to find out the results from all the tests I've had run in the last couple of months and am almost sick to my stomach. Tests include...
Any Suggestions???

07/2006 | 1 Comments

My 6yr old daughter had a 23hr video EEG at the beginning of May, to this day...I still have not received the results. Of course I have called sev...
epileptologist referral?

07/2006 | 3 Comments

Ok, I write to you in desperation. I was recently taken off of Keppra by my neurologist, who decided that I am not having seizures because I had a...
allergic to MRI dyes

07/2006 | 7 Comments

I am having problems with the dyes that they give you for the MRI . They found out that I am allergic to it . Now they are telling me that I am having...
What does it take??

06/2006 | 0 Comments

How stressful or a traumatic experience does one have to have to be considered their seizures to be anti-epileptic? When maybe another patient may...
Lennox-Gasteux and Autism

06/2006 | 0 Comments

I heard of Lennox Gastuex syndrome and it states that most kids with it develope menatl retardation by age 5. I was wondering if you could develope...
Uncontrolled Epilepsy

06/2006 | 3 Comments

I have a son that is now 15 years of age. At the age of 9 he started seizuring for no reason. The standard things were done, MRI, CT scan, etc...
So confused and dont know what to do!!!!

06/2006 | 7 Comments

For the past 8 months, (I am 18 years old), I have been having these shaking attacks. You know, it's so hard to explain though. I begin to get very...
Need a little help on brain mapping

06/2006 | 5 Comments

I know it sounds like I might be jumping ahead a bit. So bear with me. I've been going through the testing to see if I'm a candidate for surgery. So...

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