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Seizures without abnormal brain activity?

Sun, 02/27/2005 - 17:09
Topic: Family & Friends

Hi. My mother has been having seizures daily for the past two years. She mostly gets them when she's stressed out, but I've seen her have them when lights flicker. Her doctor keeps telling her they're stress-related, and only once has there been any recorded abnormal brain activity. She's frustrated as she can't figure out why she's having the seizures. She feels like they're telling her that she's making them up. She has memory loss, numbness in her hands and feet and trouble swallowing as well. Any thoughts as to what might be going on?

 

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RE: RE: RE: Seizures without abnormal brain activity?

Submitted by mexican_fire on Thu, 2005-02-24 - 23:16

GMs are Grand Mal seizures.  Always written as "GMs", not with all lower case lettering.

This type of seizure is a generalized seizure affecting the entire brain at on-set.  It ALWAYS has abnormal activity, even when there is NO seizure occuring at the time of the monitoring or EEG testing.

It has a pattern of high amplitude sharp spikes that occur in all areas of the brain at once.

Nancy

 

 

GMs are Grand Mal seizures.  Always written as "GMs", not with all lower case lettering.

This type of seizure is a generalized seizure affecting the entire brain at on-set.  It ALWAYS has abnormal activity, even when there is NO seizure occuring at the time of the monitoring or EEG testing.

It has a pattern of high amplitude sharp spikes that occur in all areas of the brain at once.

Nancy

 

 

RE: Seizures without abnormal brain activity?

Submitted by ellgee on Sun, 2005-02-27 - 17:09
wannabeagooddaughter - I always advocate for the second opinion route.  Stress can indeed bring on more (epileptic)seizures. but from your post, I get the feeling the physician is calling these "non epileptic" seizures.  Has your mother had a VEEG (or AEEG) and the events captured?  This is the ONLY way to determine whether or not these are epileptic seizures or as your physician states "stress related", in either case, you need to know exactly what is going on with the brain activity and appropriate treatment started. 
 
I am worried that this is epilepsy and your mother isn't on any AEDS.
wannabeagooddaughter - I always advocate for the second opinion route.  Stress can indeed bring on more (epileptic)seizures. but from your post, I get the feeling the physician is calling these "non epileptic" seizures.  Has your mother had a VEEG (or AEEG) and the events captured?  This is the ONLY way to determine whether or not these are epileptic seizures or as your physician states "stress related", in either case, you need to know exactly what is going on with the brain activity and appropriate treatment started. 
 
I am worried that this is epilepsy and your mother isn't on any AEDS.

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