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driving with pseudo seizures?
Sat, 11/05/2016 - 09:04Topic: Women With Epilepsy
I am 28 years old and have never had a license. I started having convulsive episodes when I was 17 and I have been told different things. My current neurologist says I have pseudo seizures because the eeg was normal but I have been told by other doctors that I have epilepsy. I almost always fall and convulse and have many scars from hitting things. I am unconscious the entire episode and when i wake up, i am exhausted and sore and dont have much memory. I always know when I am about to go into it though. I feel it. My question is, with the current official diagnosis of pseudoseizures, am I able to get a license. I just don't know how that works since I've never had a license. I haven't had any episodes in almost 3 months. I have been driving since I was 19, just without a license( yes I know that's wrong) and have never had any seizure related accidents. I'm just curious. I was going to try and go get my license but I'm not sure if I go in there, if they'll know that I have this condition. Is it reported to them or something? I live in Texas BTW.
IS the neurologist a
Submitted by just_joe on Sat, 2016-11-05 - 10:32
IS the neurologist a specialist in epilepsy. If the EEG was a short one then it may have come back normal. I had 20-25 different EEG's that all came back normal. I still had seizures. Tests done a year later showed some things that the EEG alone could not see. All the tests has come back normal including the MRI of that time. The last test to be done was another EEG which was a longer EEG and I fell asleep in it. That EEG came back with abnormalities. Spikes or waves or better known as seizure activity. By knowing where they came from the neurologists then looked closer at the MIR thingy and the closer look showed scar tissue in the left lobes of my brain. Your doctors are saying the right thing. All it takes to diagnose epilepsy is 2 seizures. a pseudo seizure is still a seizure. Some people can have both. One can cause stress which can or will trigger an epileptic seizure.Yes it is wrong to drive without a license. You haven't had an accident yet. What could happen if you had one while driving. You see laws are written to protect the people. The time period without a seizure is 6 months in Texas I think. You have been living and dealing with this for 9 years. But you still were driving at times. Yes the DMV may know about your issue. Doctors especially neurologists have forms or paperwork to fill out which gets to the DMV to revoke (suspend) licenses, After those 6 months they have forms to fill out to reinstate the license. So if you try to get a license you might be denied now. IF you aren't then if you are given one a seizure will get it revokes or suspended.So yes Each state has a law about driving and a person with seizures. Within those laws are regulations that the doctors must fill out. If you drive and have a seizure the doctors could lose their medical license.