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Help with Interpretation of Test Results

Sat, 07/09/2016 - 00:37
Hi - when I was a toddler in early 1970s was diagnosed with idiopathic epileptic seizures. I was put on Phenobarbitol and then Dilantin for a short period. I went off them a year later and continued to have febrile seizures but was not medicated. I grew out of the grand mal type seizures. I had problems in my late twenties and had some additional testing done. I was put on Tegretol for several years but went off it again. I haven't had any real issues. Although my focus has not been great and a psychologist suggested I should be tested for ADD. Having done a bit of research I'm wondering whether I have petit mal seizues rather than ADD. My EEG report showed a classification of Dysrhythmia, grade II, generalized, maximal left. The EGG shows some abnormalities in the form of bursts of slowing sometimes sharply formed which are both generalized and frontally predominant and somtimes more left sided. Hyperventilation particularly shows one burst of tie sharply fomred activitiy suggesting some lowering of seizure threshold. My CT showed subarachnoid spaces and ventrilcles are borderline elarged for age. I had an MRI which showed a small right-sided area of altered signal which as many of hte characteristis of so-called UBO. Are these findings consistent with petit mal seizures that could present as focal seizures? Any advice or help with interpretation would be so greatlly aprpreciated.

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