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What Do I Have?

Fri, 03/21/2008 - 03:40

Ok, so I have a question to weather or not I might have epilepsy or not.

Here is my backround: (18, male, 150lbs, no other illnesses or disorders)

About a year ago (I was 17), I noticed a very strange sensation. I began to smell things that weren't there. I was like "hmm this is peciulare, whats up with this". I thought it was a novalty at first, thinking it was funny. It wasnt everyday that someone would randomly smell a cross between burnt ceader, fabric softener, and cake (the things I smell are almost always nonsenical things, but are usually plesent) . I tell my dad and he freaks and takes me to a doctor thinking I have a brain tumor, I had an MRI done and (thankgod) I don't have one. So then I have an EEG done (I don't know what kind it was but it was was like 30 min long durring the day). Nothing showed up, so the doctors were confused. They sent me to a neurologist in the philadephia childrens hospital. He talked to me, reviewd the results and said he didnt know what it was, it could mabye be temporal lobe epilipsy and I could do a test thhat took a while to confirm it, but he thought i was just "sensitive". Since I was getting tired of the doctors I did not take the test and shoved it out of my mind.

Time passed and I still have olfactory halucnations, several times a day lasting from 1/2 a second to 30 seconds. I looked up information about temporal lobe epilipsy (like 3 weeks ago) and it kind of sorta sounded like me.  I realised afterwords that I do get wierd emotions for no reason whatsoever at random times, and there really powerful, but they arent coupled with the olfactory halucinations, at least I havent noticed it. 

 Then, today I was sitting in the hallway of my dorm with friends just talking and all the sudden I see sevral smal but bright amphous lights dart around in my feild of vision and im like "what the heck is this..." and it lasted for about 15 seconds. Then all the sudden when that finished I smelled dirty socks for about 5 seconds and was overcome with this sense of being "lost" i cant really describe it but i t was anegitive emotion, and I sort of lost the will to talk or speak, i just stared off into space, but was still aware of what was around me. This lasted for about 5 minutes or so then began to diminish and I was normal in about 10 minutes.

 

So in a nutshell, what s up with me. Do I have temporal lobe epilipsy like the doctor thought i could possibly have. Or am i just becoming a scziophrenic or some other wierd thing. lol

 

thanks,

Pieter 

 

Comments

Re: What Do I Have?

Submitted by SunflowerPower on Sun, 2008-03-23 - 22:29

It's still possible that you have TLE. I would consider going back to a epilepsy specialist. Make sure that you see a neurologist who is an epilepsy specialist and not a general neurologist.

There is clearly a problem here, and whatever the problem is, it needs to be taken care of. Your symptoms are serious and could seriously disrupt your life, so don't just ignore them just because one doctor blew you off.

It's still possible that you have TLE. I would consider going back to a epilepsy specialist. Make sure that you see a neurologist who is an epilepsy specialist and not a general neurologist.

There is clearly a problem here, and whatever the problem is, it needs to be taken care of. Your symptoms are serious and could seriously disrupt your life, so don't just ignore them just because one doctor blew you off.

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