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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 juperee on Sun, 2009-02-22 - 01:39
you're certainly welcome!
I should add, the first EEG was taken 5 days after my grand mal (the one that outta nowhere brought this all to my attention) when I was on no meds, and the 2008 followup was taken when I was on 1000mg of Keppra 2x per day. The Keppra has done wonders for seizure control, even though the spikes still show up on the EEG. No idea if the Keppra is the reason why the amplitude mismatch has gone away. I have never had another grand mal, and I have very few simple partials. So far, so good!
Incidentally, the MRI i had was competely normal. Sometimes they find a lesion at the seizure focus, or a little shrinking of the hippocampus, but not in my case. Did they give you an MRI?
Hopefully you and your doc will find something that works well for you.
Best o' luck!
you're certainly welcome!
I should add, the first EEG was taken 5 days after my grand mal (the one that outta nowhere brought this all to my attention) when I was on no meds, and the 2008 followup was taken when I was on 1000mg of Keppra 2x per day. The Keppra has done wonders for seizure control, even though the spikes still show up on the EEG. No idea if the Keppra is the reason why the amplitude mismatch has gone away. I have never had another grand mal, and I have very few simple partials. So far, so good!
Incidentally, the MRI i had was competely normal. Sometimes they find a lesion at the seizure focus, or a little shrinking of the hippocampus, but not in my case. Did they give you an MRI?
Hopefully you and your doc will find something that works well for you.
Best o' luck!
Re: Please help me with my EEG report
Submitted by srchtt3 on Fri, 2009-02-27 - 10:47
Would someone out there mind helping me understand what mine ment... I had a long term video EEG... this is was the conclusion...
"Interictally, occasional bursts of generalized slowing were noted, along with occasional episodes of bifrontal spike and wave activity and independent T3 sharp wave activity."
Does this mean that mine is in the front of my brain? Or not in one spot? Also, what does the 'symmetric driving response' mean that is produced from the photic stimulation. Is it a good thing to have symmetric sleep spindles? That sounds like deep sleep! haha.. But I wanted to make sure. The actual report says " stageII was characterized by vertex sharp waves and symmetric sleep spindles.'
Thanks so much.. This stuff is hard to understand sometimes!
(I tried to move this to the bottom, I'm new to the board and didn't realize it would post right in the middle, so sorry)
Would someone out there mind helping me understand what mine ment... I had a long term video EEG... this is was the conclusion...
"Interictally, occasional bursts of generalized slowing were noted, along with occasional episodes of bifrontal spike and wave activity and independent T3 sharp wave activity."
Does this mean that mine is in the front of my brain? Or not in one spot? Also, what does the 'symmetric driving response' mean that is produced from the photic stimulation. Is it a good thing to have symmetric sleep spindles? That sounds like deep sleep! haha.. But I wanted to make sure. The actual report says " stageII was characterized by vertex sharp waves and symmetric sleep spindles.'
Thanks so much.. This stuff is hard to understand sometimes!
(I tried to move this to the bottom, I'm new to the board and didn't realize it would post right in the middle, so sorry)
Re: Please help me with my EEG report
Submitted by Brook on Sat, 2009-02-21 - 13:54
Thank you Jules!