Bipolar Disorder diagnosed as Seizure activity

I have some questions and maybe you can help.

Im knew to this place.. but maybe.... someone will have some answers.

Im just confused and tierd of this stuff. I would appreciate any help.

My current doctor thinks that possibly i am having temperal lobe epilepsy problems that bring on bipolar mood swings.

This is what happens generally when i have a mood swing (either up or down)

usally if its a real mood swing- (not just menstral cycle issues)
I first get a tinggling sensation, like the tickels on my scalp, then anywhere from 5 minutes to a couple hours later I get a terrible headache in the left back part of my head, in an area about the size of my fist. (my left if i was looking out my own eyes). Then usally I get a horrible uncontrollable mood swing resulting in either Mania, rocking on the floor depression where i want to die, or a combination of both.

I one particular eppisode, the only one which i was hospitalized for,....
this happened.

I went to bed feeling odd,... very confused and i rember looking at the moon, (it was huge and full..naturally;)I was up till about 4 in the morning typing. I couldnt stop typing earlier that night, I wrote a small book... literally. finally when i couldnt focus on the screen anymore, i went to my sisters room and crawled in with her and went to sleep.(previously that week, i was hearing several voices on and off, and what I refer to as "coffee house" (which is like the murmmer of conversation of 30 people in a coffee shop...which i cant quite make out what they are saying)I was also sleeping only about 4-6 hours in three days.

When i woke up.... i felt like i was almost in a dream. like part of me was being controlled by something else. I went to go use the bathroom and I "knew" it was my job to find as much information as possible... anything with words on it. (soap labels, shampoo bottles, old newspaper, etc) I also "knew" that it was my job to build a bridge out of toilet paper to the moon so that the devil could walk from the hbo satelight to my house.

(i swear to god im not making this up... i know its crazy.. but this was my only HUGE psychotic episode so i think details might be important)

My father knocked on the door and I got violent and threw something at it. I felt like a caged animal, and wanted to kill what ever came threw the door. My dad knew something was wrong, came in and i attacked him fisticuffs style. After hitting him a bit... my family came running out and I am told I blacked out.

I woke up in the living room a few minutes later not feeling like i wanted to hurt anyone, or having ideas about building bridges etc..mostly normal.... and i remember feeling this strange sensation.. like being naked on a beach and a cool breeze run up my back into my neck and head.. and then I had what I assume was my first major seizure activity.

I could speak, but only enough to talk in cave man sentences, that is how i interpreted it, my fmaily claims that I was not showing any signs of seizure, but I felt my whole body jerking in rythem violently, especially my head, they also say my speech was normal.

The seizure type thing stopped suddenly after like a minute.. then happened again, a few minutes later. A song i knew on the radio came on, and suddenly, it all stopped.
I remember hearing it, and every weird thing that was going on,...just shut off. I felt complelty normal. I at that moment had little memory of the prior incidents and was dancing to the song in the living room , and my family was around confused, worried and I was tryign to figure out why why everyone was upset.

Then the seizure felt like it was going to happen again, and It didnt but i suddenly remembered everything that had happened... and i had my parents take me to the mental hospital (about an hour drive)

I went to the hospital, I was there for a week. They took me off a combo of meds that were not saposed to be together, (something to do with effexor) and i spent the rest of the time in the mental hospital comepletly normal. No mania, no voices, no depression, nothing. I did however experiance a horrible menstral cycle that started two days into my visit. It was so bad i broke out into cold sweats and couldnt get off the floor were i colapsed in pain. They gave me a huge dose of pain killer, and I slept for almost a day, the rest of the time,....mentally i felt more normal then I had been in a long while. They sent me home with new meds. That was 6 years ago.

I am much better now. but i am having different issues these days.

currently I still get these headaches with a more mild version of mood swings, or a violent mood swing that goes away if I knock myself out with my seroquel. When I wake up from sleep I am normal again,.....but i have recently been suffering from some kind of weird problem where I forget who I am, where i am, and what day and time it is.

This happened once while I was driving
which needless to say was terrifing, (i pulled over and waited for about an hour and half till i was sure of everything then had to go home) then it happened again except this time I was at school, and I felt like i was going to pass out.

These little episodes happen on and off and come and go. sometimes I get what i call "complete mental evacuation" were all thoughts stop in mid sentance and i have to be prompted back to life.

I get these episodes (I guess you can call them) much more frequently when a mood swing is about to happen.

I am currently only on seroquel, no mood stabalizers.

I want to get back on trileptal because i felt much more stable on it... but i dont have health insurance yet.

(I lost my old job due to these problems)

I know this is alot of info, but could you please give me your thoughts.

Do you think i have temperal lobe epilepsy?
If so, what can i do to control it?
will more anti-convulsant mood stabalizers help? Is there anyway to find out with out having to get mri's and cats? My dr wants me to see a neurologist, but im already so in debt because of my illness.... i just cant.

My friends suggested trying to get on the state program for health insurance.

I would appreciate any help you can give.
I am writing now because I am experiancing the tinggles on my scalp.

Thank you. and sorry for my awful spelling. my word processor is not installed yet on this computer, and the universe didnt give me any spelling skills.

Thank you-
Jennifer