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Normal EEG but continuing seizures
Thu, 04/23/2009 - 13:55Hi,
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! :-)
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Re: Normal EEG but continuing seizures
Submitted by sardarbur on Fri, 2009-07-03 - 13:21
Re: Normal EEG but continuing seizures
Submitted by banffgirl on Sat, 2009-07-04 - 01:00
For Day time eegs, they always request not to drink caffeine. Every time I have been in the hospital for a veeg and they have kept me up all night, I was allowed to have caffiene to drink throughout the night. It was just important that I stay awake for the full 24 hrs.
When it comes to siezure activity, I have always had a few tiny bursts of siezure activity showing up on my eegs, even when I wasnt having any siezures at all. Thats just the way my brain is. One thing that people need to remember with eegs though, they are only a small snapshot of what your brain is doing. Just because there was no activity during the 20 or 30 min during the eeg, doesnt mean there wasnt some activity minutes or hours before or after the eeg. Now that my siezures have become uncontrolable, I average 32 - 38 bursts of siezure activity on an eeg plus any actual siezures that may or may not occur during that time. Our brains are really fasinating when you think about it. My doctor has given me cds with my eegs on them. I have been having eegs for 45 yrs and they have fasinated me since I was a little girl. I have always loved going thru the old paper copies with the eeg techs and than the docs looking for and talking about the spikes. CDs are as much fun as the big accordian stack of paper was.
GOD BLESS,
BANFFGIRL,
I HAVE A ELECTRIC PERSONALITY, MY BRAIN IS SELF CHARGING!!
For Day time eegs, they always request not to drink caffeine. Every time I have been in the hospital for a veeg and they have kept me up all night, I was allowed to have caffiene to drink throughout the night. It was just important that I stay awake for the full 24 hrs.
When it comes to siezure activity, I have always had a few tiny bursts of siezure activity showing up on my eegs, even when I wasnt having any siezures at all. Thats just the way my brain is. One thing that people need to remember with eegs though, they are only a small snapshot of what your brain is doing. Just because there was no activity during the 20 or 30 min during the eeg, doesnt mean there wasnt some activity minutes or hours before or after the eeg. Now that my siezures have become uncontrolable, I average 32 - 38 bursts of siezure activity on an eeg plus any actual siezures that may or may not occur during that time. Our brains are really fasinating when you think about it. My doctor has given me cds with my eegs on them. I have been having eegs for 45 yrs and they have fasinated me since I was a little girl. I have always loved going thru the old paper copies with the eeg techs and than the docs looking for and talking about the spikes. CDs are as much fun as the big accordian stack of paper was.
GOD BLESS,
BANFFGIRL,
I HAVE A ELECTRIC PERSONALITY, MY BRAIN IS SELF CHARGING!!
Re: Normal EEG but continuing seizures
Submitted by Evergirl62884 on Thu, 2009-06-11 - 23:12
you aren't suppose to have any caffine when you do an eeg...no coffee, chocolate, soda