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No Referral?

Thu, 01/07/2016 - 10:12

I'm confident I'm getting seizures although it's undiagnosed.  Partial and absent seizures mostly.  Sometimes I'll get multiple absent seizures a day.  It's starting to really scare me now that I'm more aware of it.  I don't have a family doctor but I've been regularly going to a doctor at a walk-in clinic but he doesn't seem to be taking it seriously and I've been waiting months and he still hasn't gotten me a referral.  I did go for an MRI a couple months ago but he didn't even call back to get an appointment to discuss the results, he just filed them away.  So I set up the appointment myself and will see him next week.

I went to another walk-in clinic which was even worse.  The doctor told me I needed to see a neurologist but she couldn't help me.

I don't know what to do!  I already have anxiety and panic attacks and I have to be careful with medication (many meds for panic and anxiety can be bad for people with seizures).

I feel like my doctor isn't helping and I just need a referral but I don't know how to get one.  I'm considering going to the hospital and seeing if anyone can help me there!  But I don't have grand mal seizures or any of the "larger" seizures (except perhaps my black-out last night which I still don't know if it was a seizure or panic attack) so I can't just go when I have an absent seizure because it's only 10 seconds or something like that.

I'm 25 / female / in Ontario Canada / if that matters.

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