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One-off photosensitive episode
Sat, 08/16/2014 - 18:33Hi, I´m 16 years old and had a seizure in a party I hosted around 8 months ago. It could have happened due to a combination of things including the intense strobe lights and thick smoke, I was also lightheaded due to cigarettes. The lights were my own and I have carried on using them but have not had another seizure when exposed to strobe lights in parties or other venues since.
I went for a MRI scan the night I had it, the results were negative and I was told there was nothing wrong with me. Does anyone know what this was and if it was just a one-off thing?
The MRI will not show what is
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 2014-08-16 - 23:12
The MRI will not show what is needed to see if you have epilepsy. You might want to go to a neurologist who specializes in epilepsy. He will probably run a EEG on you . The EEG is a brain wave tst which shows the electrical activity comming from your brain. If it is normal fine. But they will also run a light which will show if you are phoyosensative. If it shows that then it is not normal which means you have seizure activity. Some people have issues with lights and strobe lights can cause seizures. Even light changes like the sun flashing between leaves can cause them in a few.