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Normal EEG but continuing seizures

Thu, 04/23/2009 - 13:55
Topic: Living With Epilepsy - Adults

Hi,

I have been having e for the past 12-13 years. It was rather well-controlled with medication (phenobarbital) till about 6 to 7 months back, when it started again but with different characteristics. The characteristics changed again about a month back, but my EEG which was sleep-deprived with medication came out to be normal.

Is this possible or could it be because of the mugs of coffee that i had to stay awake? Incidentally, the week i had my eeg, i was seizure free.

Would appreciate if anyone could throw some light on this! :-)

 

Comments

Re: Normal EEG but continuing seizures

Submitted by Evergirl62884 on Thu, 2009-06-11 - 23:11
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Re: Normal EEG but continuing seizures

Submitted by sardarbur on Fri, 2009-07-03 - 13:12

Anti-seizure meds suppress the neurons from misfiring, so you could say that they help to stop the activity. I have done quite a few EEG's in school as well during my clinical rotation and I have seen patients that are on anti-seizure meds and they still show seizure activity on the EEG, but I have seen normal EEG's on patients with seizures as well. My dad has epilepsy and his seizures have been under control for 27 years. The EEG that I did on him at school still showed spike and wave activity on his EEG despite being on meds. The brain is definitely a mystery!

I hope that I could answer your question and I hope that the Keppra works for you! Good luck!

 

Anti-seizure meds suppress the neurons from misfiring, so you could say that they help to stop the activity. I have done quite a few EEG's in school as well during my clinical rotation and I have seen patients that are on anti-seizure meds and they still show seizure activity on the EEG, but I have seen normal EEG's on patients with seizures as well. My dad has epilepsy and his seizures have been under control for 27 years. The EEG that I did on him at school still showed spike and wave activity on his EEG despite being on meds. The brain is definitely a mystery!

I hope that I could answer your question and I hope that the Keppra works for you! Good luck!

 

Re: Normal EEG but continuing seizures

Submitted by J Wilson on Fri, 2010-04-30 - 21:44
You seem to have alot of personal and educational experience with seizures and EEGs.  So I would like your opinion on my situation.  I have two beautiful daughters 16 and 17.  Last year my youngest daughter suffered two tonic clonic seizures and has had three EEGs - all showing a spike. Her MRI was normal. She has been taking Lamictal since last year and has not suffered any more seizures.  All seems to be good with her and well under control. My oldest suffered one tonic clonic last year and had a normal EEG and MRI.  They did not treat her with any medication.  But since March of this year (6 wks) she has had 7 tonic clonics.  She has had two more EEGs all still normal.  She has been on Topiramate - it didn't work - still seized.  Lamictal - she got the rash.  Then Clobazam - still seized.  On Sunday she had 3 tonic clonics in less than 6 hours.  They did another EEG - still normal.  They have now doubled her Clobazam and added dilantin, she is a zombie.  My heart breaks for her.  There is no other family history of seizures other than her sister whom it happened to about the same time.  What is your opinion?

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