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Has anyone else had symptoms like mine?

Mon, 10/29/2007 - 11:27
Hi everyone..... I had 3 petit mal seizures within a 3month period when i was 6 years old (I am now 38) and was on medication for a couple of years. I dont remember much about this period in my life at all. Over the last few years I have developed chronic daily headaches (or that is what i have been told), but as i also had dizzy spells and metallic tastes in my mouth, I was sent for an EEG and subsequently a sleep deprived EEG, both of which recorded abnormal readings. I was told that if i had had a seizure, epilepsy would have been diagnosed straight away. However, as i hadnt had a seizure, they couldnt be sure and i had to go into hospital for 5 days of video telemetry, which was also inconclusive. I still get headaches, dizzy spells, odd tastes and visual disturbances, muscle weakness, a stiff neck, and some odd sensations like electricity going out of my feet..... I have not had a seizure, but have been told that it could still be epilepsy of an atypical type. I have had 2 neaurologists who gave me conflicting advice...one says it is probably epilepsy, the other says it probably isnt, so I dont know where I stand. Does anything that I have said mean anything to anyone out there??? After all, you are the experts,not the doctors... Thanks for reading this, and hopefully someone can shed some light on this for me... Purple angel xx

Comments

Re: Has anyone else had symptoms like mine?

Submitted by wargrass on Mon, 2007-10-29 - 21:49
Re: Has anyone else had symptoms like mine? Have you had an MRI? Kelly

Re: Re: Has anyone else had symptoms like mine?

Submitted by purpleangel on Tue, 2007-10-30 - 17:00
yes..i have had an MRI, which didnt show anything untoward, but they were really looking for brain tumours at the time.....

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