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Please help me with my EEG report
Sat, 02/21/2009 - 01:22Hello everyone....I'm new here and I was wondering if anyone could help me understand my EEG results. I have an appointment next week with a neuro but I'm really wanting to know what it means now. I have had two grand mal sz since last Nov. This is what it says on my report....
Hyperventilation was performed without abnormality.
Photic stimulation was performed without abnormality.
Throughout the recording there was a rare T3 sharp wave noted.
This is an abnormal EEG due to the presence of potential epileptiform activity from the left temporal lobe at T3. Clinical correlation is recommended.
Can anyone put this into plane English for me?
Thanks
Brook
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Re: Please help me with my EEG report
Submitted by Brook on Sat, 2009-02-21 - 13:10
Thank you Rikk! You have helped a ton!
I got the EEG report from the hospital where I had it taken. I simply called and asked if I could have the report. I had to go there and sign a release and then they printed one out for me. You are allowed any of you records by law all you have to do is ask for them. The only reason I went to get it was because in my town we only have one neuro. She is the one who read the actual EEG test however she is going to be out of the country for a month so I needed the report to take to a different neuro in another town.
Thanks again and no it was not a surprise lol! I'm just glad that we finally have an answer.
Brook
Thank you Rikk! You have helped a ton!
I got the EEG report from the hospital where I had it taken. I simply called and asked if I could have the report. I had to go there and sign a release and then they printed one out for me. You are allowed any of you records by law all you have to do is ask for them. The only reason I went to get it was because in my town we only have one neuro. She is the one who read the actual EEG test however she is going to be out of the country for a month so I needed the report to take to a different neuro in another town.
Thanks again and no it was not a surprise lol! I'm just glad that we finally have an answer.
Brook
Re: Please help me with my EEG report
Submitted by rikk on Sat, 2009-02-21 - 12:08
hi brook. it is in the base. you have seizures. i hope that is not a big surprise. It is also saying they found activity that can induce the activity associated with seizures. the hyperventilation, changes the acid/base balance in the body. it is the opposite of people hyperventilating and putting a paper bag over the mouth. If you want i can go into the gas exchage process that happens.
strobic effect abormal. it is just another method of causeing seizures. if you want i can go into that as well.
the T3 sharp wave is eeg representation abnormality. it is the type of wave that is associated with seizures, the t-3 is the location. the last is that you have epilepsy that they can find in the left temporal area. that is the depression on the side of skull on the left side of your head just behind the orbit(eye socket) and in front of you ear. It is the area that represents the brain area under that skull area. potential epileptiform activity is medical jargon for it looks like epilepsy. clinical correlation is, see if it what when a regular seizure happen.
I have a question. How did you get hold of the eeg report without the doc. this sounds like a direct reading of the report. you don't have to answer that one. i hope it helps. rikk
hi brook. it is in the base. you have seizures. i hope that is not a big surprise. It is also saying they found activity that can induce the activity associated with seizures. the hyperventilation, changes the acid/base balance in the body. it is the opposite of people hyperventilating and putting a paper bag over the mouth. If you want i can go into the gas exchage process that happens.
strobic effect abormal. it is just another method of causeing seizures. if you want i can go into that as well.
the T3 sharp wave is eeg representation abnormality. it is the type of wave that is associated with seizures, the t-3 is the location. the last is that you have epilepsy that they can find in the left temporal area. that is the depression on the side of skull on the left side of your head just behind the orbit(eye socket) and in front of you ear. It is the area that represents the brain area under that skull area. potential epileptiform activity is medical jargon for it looks like epilepsy. clinical correlation is, see if it what when a regular seizure happen.
I have a question. How did you get hold of the eeg report without the doc. this sounds like a direct reading of the report. you don't have to answer that one. i hope it helps. rikk