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List of symptoms and need assistance interpreting findings

Mon, 09/25/2017 - 23:35
Hi, I'm very new to this diagnosis but have had head symptoms since 2011. My symptoms were feelings like I was going to faint, a strange buzzing or vibrating feeling in my head, dizziness, random parts of body twitching, and vision changes. I have a history of migraine with aura that has significantly gotten worse over the years. These days I see lots of flashes of light and spots or zigzags that I don't always think is related to migraine every single day. My findings were "A 10 1/2 to 11 hertz occipital dominant alpha background rhythm was seen with faster beta activity in the anterior head region. Background rhythm attenuate well with eye opening. Photic stimulation and hyperventilation do not produce any abnormal responses. Frequent bihemisperic sharp wave activity is noted. No focal slowing is noted. Drowsiness is seen in later part of the record. This EEG is consistent with seizure disorder." I asked him what type of seizure disorder this report indicated and he was very vague with me and said I could get a second opinion. There are no other neurologists in my small town. Does anyone know what this report means or what types of seizures I've been having? Thanks!

Comments

I don't think this EEG says

Submitted by birdman on Thu, 2017-10-05 - 21:20
I don't think this EEG says anything about the seizures you are having.  Unless you have a seizure during the EEG I don't think it says what kind you have.  It does confirm that you are prone to epileptic seizures.  (Some people have non-epileptic seizures and/ or a psychiatric condition that resembles epileptic seizures)  I think your doctor will diagnose seizure type mostly by the description you give him/her at your appointments.  For this they want to know if you fall and shake or jerk.  Do you just stare?  Do you lose awareness?  The symptoms you describe are very good and provide information on what part of the brain the seizures occur.  But these symptoms don't tell them if seizures remain localized or if they spread and become generalized.  To understand this read more about "partial seizures" or "focal seizures" and "generalized seizures".

the word is psychogenic not 

Submitted by just_joe on Tue, 2017-10-17 - 17:38
the word is psychogenic not  psychiatric PNES = Psychogenic Non Epileptic Seizure

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