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Seizure help
Tue, 11/08/2016 - 20:17Hello!
I am 20 years old and disabled with various conditions, but epilepsy is my newest thing to deal with.
My primary doctor diagnosed me with partial epilepsy, complex partial seizures, without status epilepticus.
Today I went in after having a seizure, or what I believe was a seizure, that I had last night.
I had low blood sugar from not eating the past couple days, but I'm not diabetic. Though that's what caused my episode last night. And I told her everything I could, She labeled it as a "psychogenic non-epileptic seizure", though I have not been in psychological distress! I've been in a bad mood since my epilepsy diagnosis, but that didn't cause this.
I see a neurologist at the end of the month, and I am currently not on any antiepileptic drugs.
I just don't know what to do.
Do people often get labeled as having a psychogenic seizure before an epilepsy diagnosis?
Right now it looks like your
Submitted by just_joe on Tue, 2016-11-08 - 21:48
Right now it looks like your primary doc diagnosed you. Relax as Amy JO posted misdiagnoses and done a lot of the time. As for not having diabetes your body changes all the time and it might be moving to that stage. So that low blood sugar could have been enough. A friend I worked with was a diabetic and I glanced at his desk now and then.. He checked on me. He had some seizures that look just like a partial seizure but they are non epileptic seizures. There are people that have Epileptic seizures and psychogenic seizures. Relax there are times when a person has one seizure and never has another seizure. That is why if you were in the ER they didn't press the issue. Keep track of the episodes you have from start till you see the neurologist.