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Should I find a new doctor?/ Seizures or mental illness.

Thu, 04/02/2015 - 22:23
I am 22 years old have been having spells that since I was 6. They sound like seizures to my regular doctor and obgyn. I am currently 6 months pregnant. These spells have been thought to be everything from ADHD to Schizoaffective disorder but SSRIs haven't helped and even caused problems with recurrent REM sleep behaviour disorder while on them. I first medicated with 200mg of Ritalin at age 6 for ADHD. My mental health diagnosis kept changing because my symptoms don't fit in a nice box. My mental symptoms started after they added Zoloft to the Ritalin because I was still forgetful in my teens which caused a suicide attempted which got a ball of meds cause symptoms let's add more meds and cause more symptoms rolling. I will zone out for a minute or two. Afterwards for an hour or two normally I have hallucinations hearing music and seeing lights but I know these are hallucinations. I constantly see visual snow and am prone to migraines. I have no delusions or lack of self care. Sometimes have memory or speech problems after as well as emotional changes. I have no psychotic behaviors or suicidal/homicidal thoughts or feelings. I have been off medication for three years and worked two jobs until my pregnancy where my job riding thoroughbred race horses would not have been safe. I was referred to a vascular neurologist who has done one 15 min eeg and has said the eeg was normal and now wants me to go to inpatient mental health to start me on new meds because he thinks I have pregnancy induced depression which is causing conversion disorder which is manifesting as fake seizures which I he said I am giving myself I think he called them psychoginic seizures. I have never had a conversion or anxiety disorder diagnosis before in my life. Is one 15 min eeg enough to rule out me having seizures? Me my family my husband and his family disagree with the diagnosis of depression and feel I do not need anti depressants. Can

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A 15 minute EEG done by a

Submitted by just_joe on Fri, 2015-04-03 - 17:18
A 15 minute EEG done by a vascular neurologist  will not give you the information you need, What you posted could be seizures. It  would be better if you saw a neurologist that specializes in epilepsy an epileptologist as Amy Jo posted.Having a normal EEG may not show and many people have them. I had 20-25 different EEG's all come back normal, It was a EEG in which I fell asleep in that showed abnormalities.So try and get referred to an epileptologist Joe

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