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Normal eeg, test giver said I'm faking

Tue, 09/27/2016 - 11:38
I started having mood changes a couple months ago that then changed to migraines, migraines turned into a bad headache and I started having what myself, family and pysch Dr believe to be legitimate seizures. I had a 2 hour EEG last Thursday. During the strobe light thing I had a seizure. Yesterday a Dr I never met said that my test was normal and that I was having psychological ones and that I needed to continue to see my psychiatrist because I'm mentally sick to have faked them. My Dr is outraged that they would say such a thing. When they do happen and to me i say to myself did I just fake that, but after it happens I can't walk and have to really pee. Note I am partially aware I'm having these. Is this possible. Which dr is right, am I really extra crazy? Sorry this was so long and possibly on the wrong forum.

Comments

Welcome  One doctor is right

Submitted by just_joe on Tue, 2016-09-27 - 12:38
Welcome  One doctor is right the question is WHICH doctor and why.NO you are not extra crazy. Also what you posted was not so long.To start with a person can have an EEG that comes up normal. I had 20-25 come back normal. Now Yesterday when they ran the EEG was the doctor a specialist in epilepsy???Yes a person can have PNES but that does not mean you haked them. They are real seizures with no truse cause. There are also other things that can cause seizures. That fall that Clinton had could have been syncopal which can go toward a cardio problen or a neurological issue (seizures) because at some point the electrical impulses hit wrong. The doctors working with PNES are trying to get neurologists that specialize in epilepsy to start looking into this too because there are many people diagnosed with epielspy that have PNES rather then epilepsy.The most conclusive test to distinguish epilepsy from PNES is long term video-EEG monitoring, with the aim of capturing one or two episodes on both videotape and EEG simultaneously (some clinicians may use suggestion to attempt to trigger an episode). Conventional EEG may not be particularly helpful because of a high false-positive rate for abnormal findings in the general population, but also of abnormal findings in patients with some of the psychiatric disorders that can mimic PNES. Additional diagnostic criteria are usually considered when diagnosing PNES from long term video-EEG monitoring because frontal lobe epilepsy may be undetectable with surface EEG,That was taken from wikipedia. SO yes there are many times a person nas a normal EEG and later it comes back abnormal. Like I posted I had 20-25 before I had one come back with abnormalities. That EEG is the one I fell asleep in. An epileptologist would be who you need to see and he can order teh EEG you need done. It will be in a monitering unit.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogenic_non-epileptic_seizuresRead that and understand that the body and brain do things doctors are still trying to figure out how it dose.I hope this helpsJoeOh and they are trying to come up with a new name since it is not all psyco

Thank you. The test giver was

Submitted by Jesi G on Tue, 2016-09-27 - 12:52
Thank you. The test giver was just some tech aide l. I want to believe the pysch and family dr who have known me for years that they are real. Again thank you

Well if these doctors great

Submitted by just_joe on Wed, 2016-09-28 - 11:34
Well if these doctors great the aid doesn't know everything needed to be known. Get your doctors to refer you to a neurologist that specializes in epilepsy.

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