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Not sure what's wrong with me?
Sun, 06/19/2016 - 14:52Topic: New to Epilepsy.com
I am a 35 year old female... I work as a pre k teacher.. back in April I had an incident where I blacked out at my sis in laws home after a day of shopping.. no biggie.. (back story.. over weight high blood pressure being treated for pre diabetes.. joint pain .. yeah I suck) my primary was out of town and the on call doc ordered a CT scan which I felt was a waste of time.. between waiting for the CT I had a few weird episodes where I would totally stare off into space and lose chunks of time... I wouldnt remember anything..(I've always been a scatter brain, my teachera and parents said I was a daydreamer.. lacked attention span) results came back with Atrophy of the frontal lobes.. they referred me to a Neurologist... he said that' no big deal with the Atrophy since it was in the frontal lobes... but he suspected absent seizures with the staring spells.. he ordered an MRI and EEG (scheduled a month out) .. I went on with my normal work schedule sure that nothing was wrong.. maybe just my blood pressure ... 3 days after my appointment with him I had a major "something" and lost consciousness for several minutes.. my coworker found me slouched over bleeding from my mouth.. they called an ambulance.. took 20 minutes for me to be coherent.. they ran an MRI and 20 EEG while there.. I guess i had several convulsive seizures while there.. they kept me most of the day and sent me home.. since then seizures have been a normal part of my day.. my body is sore and I am exhausted.. the MRI and EEG came back normal... the neurologist wants to run a 144 hour Video EEG At my home.. EASE HELP!
The MRI shows the brain as it
Submitted by just_joe on Mon, 2016-06-20 - 10:46
The MRI shows the brain as it is. with it they are looking for anything different period. A person can have many different EEG's that come back normal. I had 20-25. A longer EEG can show up more since it will be getting the electrical output from your brain for that period of time. The things you posted were seizures.. Those daydreams might have been absence seizures. For me I was written up for daydreaming in class for about 2 years, Part of my diagnosis was petite mal seizures (absence seizures) so for all the bitching my parents did they then saw I wasn't daydreaming in class.Relax and do the test and do what the neurologists tell you to do. They will have the information they need to diagnosis and start treatment