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trying to understand my eeg results
Tue, 11/28/2006 - 18:49I had this eeg done on August 11th about 7 hours after I had a "seizure" the results say: background rhythm consists of organized 8-9 Hz and having an amplitude of 25-30 mV seen maximally over the posterior regions.
Alpha rhythm attenuates with eye opening. Photic stimulation produces fair driving. There are intermittent bifrontal temporal spikes as well as a 2-second episode of spike and wave activity, which was generalized at the rate of 4-6 hertz.
Impression: Abnormal eeg because of epileptiform discharges as described above.
I have not had any seizures since that day and I had a severe urinary infection at that time and my blood pressure was high that day.
I have not been given any type of diagnosis.
Is is a difficult process to diagnose epilepsy or what else this might have been caused from?
Thanks!
Re: trying to understand my eeg results
Submitted by suebear on Tue, 2006-11-28 - 20:39
Not sure what's going on there - not a dr by any means. What a medical report reads isn't always what the actual sign of the cause is, I've learned that. In every case of a seize everyone's brain reacts differently afterwards. Sometimes it is calm afterwards and sometimes it is not (ie, spikes or misfires) I'll give you an example of what I've experienced from my own background. When the testing was being done before the surgery, they discovered that my brain would do it's spiking and the misfire would happen when it hit the scar on the left side of my brain (the temporal lobe). Which in turn caused the Complex Partial seizes whenever it spiked out. Make sense so far? Now when they removed the scar that was caused from birth (high fever - long story) my brain started going through what they called a "rewire" or "resignal" because the scar was no longer there. The scar wasn't there so the waves had to find another pathway to direct. Couldn't tell you how long that took for everything to come together but eventually the seizes did stop with the right med mix. We're not sure if it was the med mix or the surgical removal of the temp lobe or both. Epilepsy is an oddity that no one has yet to figure out. The brain is the one piece of anatomy that we learn more about every day and will continue to gain knowledge from. It seems that when we feel all knowledge has been told, another mystery unfolds and gives us one more challenge to solve. Medical technology can only do so much in finding answers, the rest is up to science. Not sure if I've gone off the beaten path but I've been studying epilepsy since I've been old enough to understand the meaning of the word. I'm 38 now if that gives you an idea. *grin* I scare off some of the medical personnel I've spoken too, not sure why though. Perhaps it intimidates them or maybe it busts their ego down a notch. ha ha ha! It pays to learn as much as you can if you have it though and don't stop getting as much information that you can gain. The more you know the better you will be when talking to your dr and others in the medical field. Ask questions - a lot of them and don't take no for an answer - it's not an option in this type of situation. Someone tells you no find out their irrational reasons then ask for a better reasoning and why. Whatever the situation, keep asking questions until you get answers. Best of luck and let us know how you're doing! Sue