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New to seizures

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 08:47
Hello everyone, I'm looking to see if anyone else has had seizures like my wife had been having. She is 26 years old, started when she was still pregnant about 6 months ago. She had a few seizures and 2 mini strokes. Took her to the er and they didn't look at nothing but her vitals and check how the baby was doing then sent her home. She had several more throughout the pregnancy. After our baby was born the seizures stopped, now she is 3 months old and my wife started having them again about 9 days ago. Started last Sunday night when she had what I thought was a grand mal seizure, she fell to the ground and started convulsions for about 2-3 minutes then she came to. I rushed her to the hospital and again they checked vitals and sent her home. Since then she has been having several per day, average of 12 per day. She is having doth grand mal and complex partial seizures. We took her to a different hospital and the ran a CT scan on her and said it looked normal. They gave her ativan 1 MG and sent her home, no eeg or mri. We don't know what to do, there are days she has up to 30 in a day, they seem to be getting more violent and lasting longer as well as having 2-4 straight in a row within seconds of stopping one will regain conciousness and then immediately have another. She is complaining of being in a lot of pain in her body and very sleepy. They seem to be taking a toll on her both physically and mentally. Any help or advice would be great. Thank you

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She needs to go to a

Submitted by just_joe on Tue, 2015-11-24 - 16:55
She needs to go to a neurologist.that specializes in epilepsy. In the hospital the ER doctors do not know much about what can cause a seizure so if they haven't seen the seizure they will generally give the main tests which everybody gets and they have nothing to do with tests for epilepsy.Most people know what an EKG or ECG is.Yup a test showing the heart beating. (electrical impulses cause the beats).The EEG is a test of the electrical impulses comming from the brain. What causes a seizure is an electrical impulse going off wrong in the brain which causes a chain reaction. The impulse going off wrong is hte part that startes the seizure (chain reaction) The longer she goes without treatment the more frequent her seizures will get and they get stronger at the same rate. Seizures can be controlled with medications. Just like someone with Afib how takes meds to control their heart rate. I know I have both. I hope this helps Joe

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