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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 Amazon on Mon, 2009-06-15 - 03:54

Hi Pewter,

Thanks for sharing your experience. Hope your seizures come under control soon. Best of luck.

Amazon

Hi Pewter,

Thanks for sharing your experience. Hope your seizures come under control soon. Best of luck.

Amazon

Re: Normal EEG but continuing seizures

Submitted by pewter on Tue, 2009-09-29 - 11:26
according to my last neuro appointment... again, thought to be psychosomatic even though he would not do any further eegs... would not consider any deep seizure activity that a scalp applied eeg won't necessarily pick up... did agree that a EEG won't pick up any seizures in the body if you aren't having one at the time of the testing... agreed my MRI scans showed some abnormalities conducive to seizure possibility but alas... this one thought no point in doing a video monitoring now that I'm unemployed and laid off and could sit up in the unit for 14 days... just written off as having psychosomatic seizures and he refused to offer anymore assistance to me though my seizure characterisitics have changed and frequency has returned while on Topamax (had gone 6 months without any while on the med then suddenly...).  So, i am to have the "spells" and if anything changes or worsens i'm welcomed to return.  So, i can have the "spells" and hope nothing serious occurs while having them for i'm not supposedly really having them.

Re: Normal EEG but continuing seizures

Submitted by iraq on Sat, 2009-09-26 - 20:39

 

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