suddenly falling asleep during the day

Well, after all the sleep disorder and narcolepsy tests, the first neurologist I had told me I was depressed.  I insisted I wasn't, she insisted I was.  I was seeing a sleep disorder psychologist at the time to see if she could help me by perhaps changing my sleep habits, etc., and she completely agreed that I was not depressed.  She had a group meeting that included sleep specialists, neurologists and psychologists, and she presented my case at the meeting.  One of the neurologists asked her to have me see him.  When he gave me an EEG, it showed seizure activity in my left temporal lobe.  His conclusion was that what I thought was nodding off all the time were actually complex partial seizures.  What tipped him off I think was that I described feeling like my stomach was doing a little flip (like being on a roller coaster) before I'd "fall asleep."  I didn't know anything about seizures or auras at the time, and I guess I was describing something very common to seizures, so he ordered the EEG. The whole thing caught me totally off guard.  Before that, I only thought seizures came in two flavors: grand mal or absence--I had never heard of any other kind and never even considered that the years and years I spent falling asleep at odd times might be due to seizures.  Since then, I've identified quite a few triggers, and can think back to when I was really young (maybe 6 or 7) and used to be terrified by a recurring "dream" I'd have while I knew I was still awake.  I could never properly describe it to anyone, so I used to call it a nightmare, but it was more like a distortion than a dream, and I knew I wasn't asleep when I had it.  Now I think that may have been the beginning of the seizures. It definitely was hard at my job.  I'd nod at my computer, meetings where I was supposed to be taking minutes, just sitting at my desk--people would poke fun at me all the time.  My boss's voice just coming from his office would trigger these episodes, so you can imagine how nervous that made me!  Lecture classes in college were really hard, and I'd take notes that later made no sense at all and would trail off the edges of the paper in some kind of meaningless scrawl.  I could go on, but I'm sure you know what I mean. Good luck finding out the answer.  My life is a lot more comfortable since I've been taking Keppra (it's been about 3 1/2 years now).  Every now and then I still have one of these episodes, but really, hardly ever compared to what it was like before.  I never fall asleep at the computer or in meetings, no matter how deadly dull they are, so I know now it wasn't just boredom.  I can watch whole movies and ride in cars and stay awake (but I'm really still afraid to drive for more than a half hour).  I can't say I feel totally fog-free and alert, but way, way better. Deb