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If your neurologist gave yo ua diagnosis and has prescribed medicatins which you posted then he knows you have been having seizures. Have you discussed this issue with him or had any dosages changed?? If not then you do need to talk to him. A medication that works for one person may not work for the  next. DOsages are like that too. I am taking the maximum dosage of keppra while others take a small ammount or are at mid range.As for EEG.s comming back normal that happens to many people. The EEG's can only read to a certain depth in the brain which means the abnormalities could be deeper. If the neurologist put you on meds 2 times a day those times should be 12 hours apart. because if they are taken at 7 am and then 10 pm the hours between 7-10 pm the dosages and levels are lower then the doctor wants them. If you haven't told your neurologiwst about this then you do need toAs for a second openion the diagnosis would generally be the same and the new neurologist will contact the old one to garner information he had gotten.UIf yo uhave a good relatinship with your neurologist then these questions may be handled over the phone. If however you haven't talked or seen him since you were diagnosed with epilepsy then you need adjustments made to your dosages.Also understand that any change in your body changes the levels of your medications. Hormonial changes can too. I hope this helps and you get the assistance you need

Also   your posting I had a (what doctors think) tonic-clonic seizure. Generally doctors know what they are talking about Unless you have studied about all the different types of epilepsy and different types of seizures you have no idea of what happened to you. The doctor garnered information from the EMT's if your Mother went to the hospital the doctor got information from her too. If you asnwered any questions he also got information from you. The doctor compiled all the information and used the knowledge he had gotten in his business and college for years. Which means yes the diagnosis may be questioned. But if you have been having episodes like you posted then the diagnoisis is right. My doagnosis was long before the neurologists went into their specialities. Go check out Grand Mal epilepsy. Petite Mal epilepsy and Focal Motor epilepsy. Tonic clonic seizures are a form of grand mal seizures. Absence seizures are petite mal seizures. Focal seizures are seizures that are focalized in one area of the brain. With me they start in my right hand. Many of those seizures may look like the person having them is day dreaming. Which is also what absence seizures look like, However in a focal seizure the person is concious and knows what is going on. Focal seizures can generalize. Which means they can move fron one area only and cover the entire brain. Those seizures will look like a grand mal seizure. But like  I said the person knows what is happening. In mine I knew iwas in a convulsion. I heard what people were saying. I knew what people were doing. In other words I was fully concious of everything happeningI had no neurologist diagnosing epilepsy until testing was done a year after I hd the grand mal. I had been written up for day dreaming in class. I had wierd feeling in my right hand at times which I thought was because I might have over worked it. Joe