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neurotesting
Mon, 09/03/2007 - 17:42Is the main reason for neurotesting to see if your brain is getting damaged by recurrent seizures? I used to think it was to see if medications were affecting your mind negatively but maybe seizures can damage brain cells.
Re: neurotesting
Submitted by banffgirl on Thu, 2007-09-06 - 09:37
if you are talking about neuro pcyho testing it does show if there has been any damage from too many seizures over a period of time which is my case, it also cheks people with damage from car recks and things like that. if you have a lot of t/cs over a perod of time that are very close togeter then it can cause brain damame. i became uncontrlalbe 4 yrs ago and still am, the fisrt year i had to many t/c to evencount. i now average 2-3 a week which is great, thats after geting onkeppra 1500mg with zonegran 800mg tranxene sd so i hope that help your ? banffgirl