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Possible misdiagnosis

Wed, 07/13/2016 - 21:47
My 2 1/2 year old has been having seizures with only one abnormal eeg and others coming back normal but is still having tons of what looks like seizures. Anyone have this issue than told by neurologist we need to catch this on video eeg to make sure it's really seizures and not something else? I'm not sure what else this could be she will start blinking and starring off unable to respond or sometimes it looks like she's sleeping and she's not she will do mild jerking and eyes with roll up down or to the sides for 5-15 minutes and be unresponsive what could this be ?

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I had 20-25 EEG's that all

Submitted by just_joe on Thu, 2016-07-14 - 14:12
I had 20-25 EEG's that all came back normal. I had been written up for daydreaming in class. The thing that started having those EEG's was a grand Mal Seizure. About 1 1/2 years later I went thru a battery of tests. The last test was another EEG. In that EEG I fell asleep and it came back with seizure activity ie abnormalities. So having some come back normal does not mean they don't have seizures or epilepsy.Now is the neurologist you have a specialist in epilepsy? Generally a video EEG is done in a EMU (epilepsy monitoring  unit) where the patient is hooked up and the EEG is running all the time. they are being videoed at the same time/ People are watching the EEG and marking it when they see something that might be abnormal. So if they are doing that they are wanting further information which can help with a diagnosis.

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