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Have questions; please help?

Mon, 12/08/2014 - 08:32

I've read everything but I think I could still learn something here from you kind people. I have been having what I just leaned are myoclonus jerks for the past 2 years or so. I always assumed these were just odd symptoms of my untreated anxiety. I'm 18 and a freshman in college now. Over thanksgiving break I had a partial complex. Went to the er and I'm seeing a neurologist on Wednesday. So scared that I have epilepsy. Anyone else start with myoclonus seizures then have a partial complex?

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While I didn't start with

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2014-12-08 - 10:31
While I didn't start with jerks. I did have what my teachers thought were day dreams since I had been written up for day dreaming in class. I also had wierd feeling in my right hand from time to time and at some of those times my right hand would start to trise up. If you check absence and focal seizures can look like day dreamers. So yes a person can go years without knowing they have epilepsy. It took having a grand mal seizure to know that I was having seizures. The testing showed nothing but all it takes is 2 seizures for a diagnosis. After going about 2 years I was finally tested in a battery of tests and the last test was another EEG.I had already had 20-25 EEG's and in the battery I had a spinal tap blood tests and a neuro-angeogram (MRI of the 1960's) all had come back normal or they saw nothing in them. Like I said the last test was another EEG. I fell asleep in that EEG and the saw abnormalities (seizure activity) by knowing where that activity came from they looked closer and they found scar tissue on the left lobes of my brain. The scar tissue was from a hemmorage to the brain. A blow to the head can cause a hemmorage ifi it knocks a person out even for a second or two. When you see the neurologist answer his questions and ask your questions. IF he thinks you will have other seizures he will prescribe medications. Fine those medications he prescribes will be ones he knows work for a person your age and the reason will be he has a patient that is loke you with age and everything else. When starting a person on meds. you will be started on it and after some weeks the dosage will be increased until your body is used to it and the levels in your body is where the neurologist thinkks they need to be. All a seizure is is an electrical impulse going off in the brain wrong causing a chain eaction. The medications are to control those releases and stop them from going off wrong I hope this helps and you get under control Joe

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