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Absence Seizures for Adults?
Tue, 09/25/2007 - 01:20Comments
I am having some TIA like
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Re: Absence Seizures for Adults?
Submitted by prettyinpink1286 on Mon, 2010-11-29 - 17:46
My doctor said that I have had complex partial seizures and now the recent discovery of the Absence Seizures - it would just be a whole lot easier if there were a test or something to prove that that is actually what it is but I guess they just use your symptoms etc to make a diagnosis. Thinking back to my previous seizures I would have a slight headache and then start feeling sick in the stomach, get hot flushes, feel like vomitting - the last 2 times I've managed to say to who I was with at the time that I didnt feel so good, however both of them do not recall this ... I must of past out as I said it. I also remember once when I was about 11 and it was real late at night and I'd been ill - I walked up to my parents room and called for my Mum next thing I was in a pile on the floor but I could still hear my Mum talking to my Dad.
I want to know what caused my part of the brain called left hippocampus
to be a different shape and smaller than the other side, how does this
cause seizures and why?? You probably cant answer that but I will have
to ask my Dr.
I hate that I forget everything, I'll be mid sentence during a conversation and completely forget what I'm talking about ...
Earlier
today I was driving through the city - in the passenger seat - my
boyfriend was driving. Coming up to a major intersection, I see the
cars are banked up ahead but we make it accross, I see a girl at a bus
stop across the street and a car beside us. Next thing its like I snap
out of a "absence seizure" I think and I look ahead and we are coming up
to the same intersection again and the traffic ahead is banked up, its
like mega de ja vu - OR I mistook the previous intersection for the
major one we had come up to. This really weirded me out.
Through School I was critisized for my lack of concentration and 'being off in my own world', daydreaming and teased for staring at kids in high school.
My doctor said that I have had complex partial seizures and now the recent discovery of the Absence Seizures - it would just be a whole lot easier if there were a test or something to prove that that is actually what it is but I guess they just use your symptoms etc to make a diagnosis. Thinking back to my previous seizures I would have a slight headache and then start feeling sick in the stomach, get hot flushes, feel like vomitting - the last 2 times I've managed to say to who I was with at the time that I didnt feel so good, however both of them do not recall this ... I must of past out as I said it. I also remember once when I was about 11 and it was real late at night and I'd been ill - I walked up to my parents room and called for my Mum next thing I was in a pile on the floor but I could still hear my Mum talking to my Dad.
I want to know what caused my part of the brain called left hippocampus
to be a different shape and smaller than the other side, how does this
cause seizures and why?? You probably cant answer that but I will have
to ask my Dr.
I hate that I forget everything, I'll be mid sentence during a conversation and completely forget what I'm talking about ...
Earlier
today I was driving through the city - in the passenger seat - my
boyfriend was driving. Coming up to a major intersection, I see the
cars are banked up ahead but we make it accross, I see a girl at a bus
stop across the street and a car beside us. Next thing its like I snap
out of a "absence seizure" I think and I look ahead and we are coming up
to the same intersection again and the traffic ahead is banked up, its
like mega de ja vu - OR I mistook the previous intersection for the
major one we had come up to. This really weirded me out.
Through School I was critisized for my lack of concentration and 'being off in my own world', daydreaming and teased for staring at kids in high school.
Re: Absence Seizures for Adults?
Submitted by Nellsiegirl on Mon, 2011-12-12 - 22:11
I am 41 years old and for the past couple of years I have had problems when I drive. I have felt like my head sways at times, sometimes a few times in a row, and I feel confused afterwards. I have wondered many times if I have blacked out as I feel like things aren't right...I couple months ago I was driving and I don't know what happened but before I knew it I was on the other side of the road and I don't know how I got there. Thank goodness there was no traffic and I was close to home. It scared me to the point that I decided not to drive on very glarey days (it seems to be caused by glare) I had a thunderclap headache the week before this happened and was booked in for an EEG. My nurologist informed me that I had abnormalities on my EEG that are found in people with Epilepsy and has told me Im not to drive for 4 months to see if it continues. He didnt say I had absence seizures or epilepsy but after reading up on absence seizures it sounds like what has been happening to me. If it continues he said I will have to be on medication. I have gone through a lot of stress the past 2 years and I was originally told the light headedness/confusion i was experiencing on and off all day was hypervigilence. Now Im wondering if It was actually absence seizures. It's a scary thing to happen when driving.
I am 41 years old and for the past couple of years I have had problems when I drive. I have felt like my head sways at times, sometimes a few times in a row, and I feel confused afterwards. I have wondered many times if I have blacked out as I feel like things aren't right...I couple months ago I was driving and I don't know what happened but before I knew it I was on the other side of the road and I don't know how I got there. Thank goodness there was no traffic and I was close to home. It scared me to the point that I decided not to drive on very glarey days (it seems to be caused by glare) I had a thunderclap headache the week before this happened and was booked in for an EEG. My nurologist informed me that I had abnormalities on my EEG that are found in people with Epilepsy and has told me Im not to drive for 4 months to see if it continues. He didnt say I had absence seizures or epilepsy but after reading up on absence seizures it sounds like what has been happening to me. If it continues he said I will have to be on medication. I have gone through a lot of stress the past 2 years and I was originally told the light headedness/confusion i was experiencing on and off all day was hypervigilence. Now Im wondering if It was actually absence seizures. It's a scary thing to happen when driving.