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Absence Seizures for Adults?

Tue, 09/25/2007 - 01:20
Topic: Living With Epilepsy - Adults
Hello, I'm new I'm a 21 year old and I started noticing that I was "blanking out" oddly a couple of years ago Finally after 2 years, I see a doctor, he tells me I might have "Absence Seizures" and he referred me a Nuerologist tells me I have Complex Partial Seizures (without testing me or anything at all) but my Seizures are not Several minutes long, they are only about 10 seconds and I keep telling myself I have Absence Seizures, but Im an adult Here's how seizure is: A sudden vertigo/dizziness like trance, only lasting about 5-10 seconds, I forget my surroundings for a second, they happen one or two days a week, up to 12 times a day and some weeks they don't happen at all and only a few times I've had a bad headache afterwards Anyone had this same problem as an Adult, can Adults get Absence Seizures?

Comments

Re: My wife had them as an

Submitted by Laurie Lamantia on Fri, 2011-01-21 - 19:50

Our sonhas had them since he was 5 or 6 and has failed 6 meds.  We are currently weaning off of felbatol and just starting Neurofeedback.  Can you tell me how long it took for your wife to see any benefit and if there wear any negative side effects.  We are trying to be very hopful as the drugs have been a nightmare and he so wants to have a more normal life.

Any info. will help. and thanks for you web site.

Laurie

Our sonhas had them since he was 5 or 6 and has failed 6 meds.  We are currently weaning off of felbatol and just starting Neurofeedback.  Can you tell me how long it took for your wife to see any benefit and if there wear any negative side effects.  We are trying to be very hopful as the drugs have been a nightmare and he so wants to have a more normal life.

Any info. will help. and thanks for you web site.

Laurie

Re: My wife had them as an

Submitted by indyfan on Thu, 2007-09-27 - 20:31
really? that's great

Re: My wife had them as an

Submitted by Laurie Lamantia on Sun, 2011-01-16 - 12:22

My son is 16 and has had medication resistant absence seizures since he was 5.  He has failed 6 meds. We just started neurofeedback last week.  We are praying it works.  Was your wife on any medication when she started neurofeedback?  And did she every have any negitive side effects.  At the end of the last session our son got really brain fatigued, which of course caused him to have more seizures that evening.  The Dr. said she would lesson the training time during the next session due to that.  Also, she wants to get a QEEG. ( a brain map) did your wife do that?

Thanks for your input.

Laurie

My son is 16 and has had medication resistant absence seizures since he was 5.  He has failed 6 meds. We just started neurofeedback last week.  We are praying it works.  Was your wife on any medication when she started neurofeedback?  And did she every have any negitive side effects.  At the end of the last session our son got really brain fatigued, which of course caused him to have more seizures that evening.  The Dr. said she would lesson the training time during the next session due to that.  Also, she wants to get a QEEG. ( a brain map) did your wife do that?

Thanks for your input.

Laurie

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