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The Importance of Being Sleep-Deprived for EEG
Thu, 06/25/2015 - 21:20So as the title indicates, I'm wondering about how important it is that you be sleep-deprived during an EEG test. I just had one this last Friday on the 19th and I got the results yesterday which turned up normal. It's very strange to me that it would turn out to be normal when I'm experiencing all of these symptoms and strange occurences lately. My last EEG 3 years ago said I had left temporal lobe seizure activity and now this recent one I just got is normal. It's odd because I seem to have gotten worse with my condition since then. Maybe it's because the last EEG I had back 3 years ago I was more sleep-deprived for? Or does it not really matter? Please let me know your thoughts.
A EEG shows the electrical
Submitted by just_joe on Fri, 2015-06-26 - 10:11
A EEG shows the electrical output comming from yur brain. Normal EEG's last about 30-45 minutes and many tomes come back normal. I had 20-25 different EEG's and they all came back normal. I was being tested back in 64 for a true diagnosis. They ran the full gammot of tests they did back then and everything came back normal. The last test was another EEG. In that EEG I fell asleep because I was tired because of the testing. In that EEG they found abnormalities (seizure activity). The neurologists then went back to the MRI of that time and found scar tissue in the lower left lobes of my brain. So yes slep deprived EEG show more just as a ambulatory EEG or one given in a EMU