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Topic: Diagnostic Dilemmas and Testing

Do I have Temporal Lobe Epilepsy?

03/2018 | 1 Comments

For the past few years I have been experiencing very strange episodes (mostly when I am stressed) that are difficult to describe . Feelings of Deja vu...
Help Figuring out my EEG Results

03/2018 | 0 Comments

So I recently went to the hospital because I had a seizure. I had/have Sydenhams Chorea, take seizure medicine for the past 15years. They kept me...
Unsure if epileptic HELP??

03/2018 | 1 Comments

Hi I’m a 21 year old male and I have been dealing with bad anxiety, stress and depression since I was 16. I had my first seizure which was a tonic...
Am I actually epileptic???

03/2018 | 0 Comments

Story time. I'm a type 1 diabetic. I have been for nearly two decades. I had one diabetic seizure when I was a child (though I was too young to...
Feeling Alone in My Diagnosis

03/2018 | 3 Comments

I’m new to epilepsy. Started having seizures two months ago (5 per day). My seizures have a typical aura but then involve my vision fading out and...
Painful night episodes - seizures?

03/2018 | 0 Comments

Hello everyone. I need advice on if this resembles anything you have experienced or if these episodes sound like seizures. For the last couple of...
Why am I getting so many EEGs?

02/2018 | 2 Comments

Hello! I am a 21 year old female with a history of two smalls strokes years ago. In August I went into the ER with a migraine because my tongue went...
Be proactive

02/2018 | 0 Comments

Most of us can't control our seizures, but don't let the seizures control you. I was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of 9 and still have seizures...
First MRI is 2 months away

02/2018 | 3 Comments

My 3 year old daughter has had 3 unprovoked, partial seizures. She had an EEG that showed epileptiform discharges coming from the temporal lobe. She...
Epilespy or not?

02/2018 | 2 Comments

My Dad was taken to the hospital yesterday because he had a seizure at home. This was his second seizure in 4 months. Last time he had one seizure and...
Are night “illusions” seizures?

01/2018 | 0 Comments

I have had 2 ambulatory and video EEGs done and both were abnormal with focal dysfunction in the temporal lobe but no seizure activity. I have...
What kind of seizures am I having?

01/2018 | 1 Comments

I am in no way new to epilepsy but this makes the second type of seizure that I have had. The first was one that plagued me as a child, I would wake...

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