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not sure whats going on, help with eeg results

Wed, 10/28/2015 - 11:32
This is going to be long so Thanks in advance. Hello this is my first post. I'm not even sure if this is where I need to be. My history- I'm 35 year old female. Diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 2005. I never believed I had this because I didn't seem as bad off as some of the stories I've read. But I still felt horrible. Never took any daily meds for this because it didn't affect my life like something is affecting me so bad now. In December of 2014 I started feeling light headed. Like I was literally feeling disconnected with my body. Like I was floating away. Driving was difficult. I would get so shaky and sick. Previously I have been in 3 minor accidents. I swear I never saw anyone coming when I pulled away from stop sign. Now it's starting to make sense. Once I ended up a few miles away from my house never realizing I don't turn where I was supposed to. I just chalked up the driving issues to anxiety because of the accidents I caused. One was in 2003 then again in 2006 both times i was pregnant. The last one was in 2012 when I was driving in heavy traffic. Anyway back to recently. I saw my primary doctor when symptoms first started in December and she said vertigo. I took the antivert and it was ok for a few weeks. I ended up at the ER because I felt like there was something really wrong. They said the same thing vertigo with no explanation. Again I was ok for a couple months. Then in May of 2015 I was driving to an awards ceremony at my kids school and I was again feeling light headed shaky weak and I had a very hard time keeping my eyes open. So I went back to the same doctor and she sent me for tests at a hearing center. All tests came back clear. Including a brain mri I was at a loss. No one was listening. So I begged her to send me to a Neuro. I finally got in to see him at the beginning of October. He sent me for an eeg. Well I was tired of waiting. I mean it's one day in the lives of a doctor but dammit it was everyday of my life So I saw a new doctor that my cousin is a nurse for. She gave him a list of all the symptoms I wrote down for hwe and when I saw him I knew he was listening. Later that day the Neuro office called with the results of my eeg. All they told me was there were sharp waves on the left, start taking keppra 500 2x a day and call us in 10 days to tell us how you feel. So in 10 days I called them and told them the keppra was making me extremely sleepy and I needed to go back to work and they then tell me no I couldn't drive for 6 months. I was so upset that they didn't tell me what was so wrong with me. They don't know about the accidents before. I called my cousin and got the eeg report. But I don't know how the heck to interpret it. And she's just a nurse and I don't think she is the one to diagnose me. I don't see the Neuro until November. Please look at these key points I copied from the rport and tell me what you think. Neuro says I have unusual symptoms of ringing in ears fatigue muscle or bone pain light headness weakness The eeg report says * there is intermittent left hemispheric sharp waves activity during the recording predominately left frontotemporal leads *there is some secondary generalization bilaterally during hypervenilation noted *this is a not a diagnostically specific finding but does indicate cortical irritability affecting this area of the brain *clinical correlation reccommended Please if you can interpret any thing let me know. I've been on the kepprabsince october 10. It has helped with the daily symptoms of light headness although every other day I start feeling sick like before and it passes in about 15 minutes. Am I having a seizure ? Thanks and sorry if I sound crazy.

Comments

Hi its my first time here

Submitted by crabby0910 on Thu, 2015-10-29 - 11:22
Hi its my first time here (first post too) as with the EEG results, only a neuro can interpret it. Your results are unique to you. Your symptoms does not indicate seizure symptoms. Do you experience auras? And please tell your Neuro to explain it to you in laymans term. You said that all they did tell you was "there were sharp waves on the left," ...if i were you, i would phone the neuro office either talk to doc or, have them fax you a proper explanation on you eeg result. :)

Sorry I have been away for

Submitted by just_joe on Thu, 2015-11-05 - 15:46
Sorry I have been away for some time.The EEG shows where in the brain the electrical activity is comming from. If it is normal they fine. But when that see a wave or spike then it is abnormal. Spikes and Waves are not normal. All a seizure is is an electrical impulse going off wrong in your brain causing a chain reaction. That spike is going off wrong so that virtigo could be seizures.Keppra has become the go to medication of seizure control. If it has reduced the number of issues then it is workingIf you are taking it 2 times a day those times need to be 12 hours apart.  It does take 4-6 weeks for the body to get used to the medication. The neurologist will want to see you or at least hear from you to see if the medication is working, After 2-3 months the dosage could be raised or lowered but that would be the neurologists decission.

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