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Pseudo Seizures

Fri, 01/20/2006 - 13:47
Topic: Women With Epilepsy
Hi there, Im hoping someone out there can help me out. I have just returned from the A & E Department of my local Hospital after being sent their by my GP due to my having 2-3 seizures a day and having a real bad headache down the left side of my head and weakness on my right side. After being treated as what can only be described as a slab of meat I was told that I was having pseudo seizures to cover up my stress that I was under and that the medication I was on was enough to knock out a horse and that I was using these seizures to get out of situations. I did try to assure the Doctor that I am not stressed and am just a normal 35 year old mother of two wonderful kids, who is happily married and works full time but all he said was that he was trying to give me the chance to "admit" that I knew I was doing this in order for him to help me further. When I assured him that I dont remember going into seizure and that this had been the case for 12 years he then said he couldnt help and that I would have to wait 7-8 weeks for a so called urgent referral. To say I feel totally disheartened and extremely upset would be an understatement and although I am waiting to see my GP on Tuesday and I dont know what to do now. Any advice anyone can give would be really gratefully received. Please help as I want my life back. Star xx

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Hi Mel, I read your entry

Submitted by Diane_T on Tue, 2018-08-21 - 01:49
Hi Mel, I read your entry (posted 609 days ago) and hope you found answers. My 19-year-old daughter is going through this right now.  She is a calm person who handles stress in a healthy manner. She has never had trauma. These "pseudoseizures" came out of nowhere, accompanied by a migraine headache. She is a second-semester freshman and is unable to go back to school, which is not what she wants. She has had chronic GI issues and started taking birth control pills three months ago. We are at our wit's end because she had an EEG, MRI, CAT scans, blood work, and everything comes back "normal."  It's like all the doctors gave up and just want her to go to counseling. I hope you see this post and are able to steer us to some solutions. Thank you for posting and I do hope to hear from you. You can contact me at dlterry2020@gmail.com if you prefer.

My daughter was just

Submitted by CarasMom on Fri, 2017-12-08 - 22:57
My daughter was just diagnosed with Pseudoseizures. I was upset when the ER doctor told me she was faking this. I know my daughter and she is very shy and does have anxiety that she won’t eat lunch because she won’t stand in line to get it. She’s not one for attention. I sure hope she can overcome this because watching her have over a dozen seizure episodes in one night was horrifying to the least. After talking to the team of doctors I was at a loss to find out all this stress, anxiety or even abuse can cause her body to do this. Her problems started from being bullied in 3rd grade, to me trying to homeschool her, to going back to school to being called names. All I know is I try to protect my daughter at all cost and I feel like I’ve failed somehow. I hope and pray this goes away someday 

Re: Pseudo Seizures

Submitted by nikkimarie on Mon, 2008-05-12 - 13:11

Hi Star, I'm sorry to here that your going through this i really understand. I to have pseudo seizures. i'm 29 and a mother of three and have had them for 4 years now. I to was sent home from the hospital when this first started occuring told that i was faking it and i just needed to eat more potassium to keep my body from (cramping) up like it was. Finally a good Dr. did the right testing and asked if I had ever been sexually or phically abused when I said yes she told me that I hadn't delt with it and she was right. Although I still have these episodes at times like when I get to hot or cold, when I'm really scared or evn when I'm just having an emotionally  hard time it has helped to get the right help that I needed it has gone from 4to15 times a day to MAYBE once a month. I really wish you the best sweetheart and I hope you can find a good Dr. that can help you. Just remeber to keep trying and not to let this consume your life like I did because it's to short my prayers are with you.

Hi Star, I'm sorry to here that your going through this i really understand. I to have pseudo seizures. i'm 29 and a mother of three and have had them for 4 years now. I to was sent home from the hospital when this first started occuring told that i was faking it and i just needed to eat more potassium to keep my body from (cramping) up like it was. Finally a good Dr. did the right testing and asked if I had ever been sexually or phically abused when I said yes she told me that I hadn't delt with it and she was right. Although I still have these episodes at times like when I get to hot or cold, when I'm really scared or evn when I'm just having an emotionally  hard time it has helped to get the right help that I needed it has gone from 4to15 times a day to MAYBE once a month. I really wish you the best sweetheart and I hope you can find a good Dr. that can help you. Just remeber to keep trying and not to let this consume your life like I did because it's to short my prayers are with you.

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