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EEG Results - Help Please

Tue, 07/08/2014 - 10:28
Hi There, I was hoping someone on here could help me better understand my results. I have a history of experiencing seizures where I have passed out (didn't not know they were seizures until about a month ago) and apparently a family history of seizure disorders through my paternal grandparents. I recently completed my eeg that stated there was a "paroxysmal nonepilitform disturbance of cerebral activity recorded" During Hyperventilation: "evoked bursts of 2.5 Hz delta waves with diffuse distribution over both hemispheres, bilateral synchronmy and bifrontal amplitude predominance, lasting 2-3 seconds" Has anyone every experineced this? Does anyone know what this means? I am scheduled for a sleep eeg in a few weeks, however doctors have advised that I should prepare for an epilepsy diagnosis and we are looking to see whether this is a lesion, migraine or seizure activity. Could this burst of deltawaves been from just being tired from the hyperventilating or is that a ridiculous conclusion to make? I do remember feeling during that portion of the eeg the similar feelings of my auras, my arm jerking and confusion after the test. Is there any special notes to make because they were predominately at the front and throughout my brain? Thanks so much for your help. Still trying to wrap my head around everything.

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Welcome As for family history

Submitted by just_joe on Tue, 2014-07-08 - 13:52
Welcome As for family history and grandparents in most cases that is very rare. During Hyperventilation: "evoked bursts of 2.5 Hz delta waves with diffuse distribution over both hemispheres, bilateral synchronmy and bifrontal amplitude predominance, lasting 2-3 seconds"  The sleep EEG may show them more since I had 15-20 EEG's all show up mormal. The EEG that showed where in the brain my seizure activity was comming from was one in which I fell asleep in. As for notes or other things you might tell is just what you posted and tell them that before the EEG begins. Other then that just relax and sleep. They are trying to find out more and if they do they may find more procedures, medication and dosages to work with. I hope this helps and you get seizure free Joe

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