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Odd sensations
Fri, 03/20/2015 - 18:57Hi all,
I wanted to get some opinions on possible adult onset epilepsy. At this point, I'm not sure. Went to the emergency room yesterday thinking I am having mini-stroke symptoms. My CAT scan came back normal and I was advised to ask my Primary Doctor for a referral to a neurologist. I've been having these symptoms for approximately two years or longer, went to a neurologist and had an EEG in 2013 which was normal. After reading several postings here I realized that many members here have had the same results-normal tests.
My symptoms generally start with a pain in the back of my lower head, then I feel the numbing tingling sensation move through my left side mostly with some involuntary movements happening at this point. Saturdays episode was about the worst I've had, my body shook pretty hard which left me with residual feelings of numbness and tiredness. In the past year, both my legs have gone numb and I've fallen. These episodes only last seconds as far as I can tell. The good part if their is one...I know when these episodes are coming. The pain in my head alerts me an episode will happen at any second. Last year I had one bad episode after parking my car at work, this episde caused me to lose consiousness for 3 minutes. I know the exact time due to my car clock, I looked at the clock before losing conciousness. Once I realized what was going on my leg was moving on its own. Scary.
Thank you,
Maggie
from what I read in your
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2015-03-20 - 22:00
from what I read in your symptoms you could have been having seizures for a period of time.I had 20+25 different EEG's all came back normal. I had to go thru a battery of tests for some reason or another (I was about 13 at the time) They ran several tests each day for 3 days, They then did a spinal tap and at the same time did a neuro-amgeogram (MRI of the 1960") tests came back normal. The last test they ran was you guessed it another EEG in which I fell asleep. In that EEG they found abnormalities. By knowong where the abnormalities came from in my brain they then went back to the neuro-angeogram and look closer in that area. WEll even tho they hadn't seen anything before a closer look showed them I have scared brain tissue. The neurologist at that time were not abale to tell us how or exactly when I got it. In 2005 my neurologist wanted to see if other procedures could help me. Well he did an MRI and I had a 3 day EEG in a monitering unit. The information Doc came up with is the scar tissue was caused by a hemmorage to the brain. The hemmorage was from a blow to my head, The time period was between 6-8 YOA. Well it took a little while to put pieces together but when I was 7 I had a rung on a ladder come out while i was on the top step. I hit the metal rim on the top bunk of the bumk beds which spun my head areound slamming my chek into the bottom bunk. I was taken to the hospital and they were more worried about the gash in my cheek and tomgue and the 4 teeth that were knocked out then the big bump on my head. In other words just because tests come back normal does not mean you can't have epilepsy See a neurologist that sepcializes in epilepsy and talk to him and tell him about the things you posted here I hope yo uget the assistance you need Joe PS Come back and let us know how things went