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Simple Partial Seizures & Long-term memory
Mon, 07/07/2008 - 05:26Hi, I am new to this forum.
I suffer from what are suspected to be Simple Partial Seizures. They are currently under investigation, and having had an MRI and EEG with nothing abnormal showing, the doctor is starting to suspect epilepsy, although nothing has been diagnosed as yet. I have always thought since they started that these simple partial seizures are just a minor inconvenience which I can live with, and as such I probably wouldn't want medication in case the side effects were worse than the actual seizures.
However recently I've started wondering if these seizures are cumulatively damaging my long-term memory. Sometimes my wife talks of things we've done, places we've been, and it's worrying that, for some things, I have no memory of them at all.
If this is the case then of course I'd want to take medication in the assumption that controlling the seizures might prevent further memory loss.
Does anyone know of a link between seizures (I believe they are temporal lobe based) and long-term memory loss? Or maybe I've just always had a lousy memory anyway?
Comments
Re: Simple Partial Seizures & Long-term memory
Submitted by Amazon on Fri, 2009-03-27 - 02:49
hi
i have been on different AEDs for the past 12 or 14 years. ALways thought that i was just not very attentive and preoccupied with things to hear what family is saying to me - result - forgetting to do things they had instructed me to do. now i wonder would it be short term memory loss, coz i do have difficulty remembring things sometimes.
hi
i have been on different AEDs for the past 12 or 14 years. ALways thought that i was just not very attentive and preoccupied with things to hear what family is saying to me - result - forgetting to do things they had instructed me to do. now i wonder would it be short term memory loss, coz i do have difficulty remembring things sometimes.
Re: Simple Partial Seizures & Long-term memory
Submitted by izeofblu1973 on Fri, 2012-07-27 - 02:10
I can sympathize, I have all the same symptoms. I have simple partial seizures. Although, I cannot offer you the keys to the cure of our problems, I hope knowing that you are not alone helps. I realize this post was from 2008 and it is now 2012, but I hope you have found some peace with our disease. God bless and if you never need a sympathetic ear, let me know.