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Topic: Diagnostic Dilemmas and Testing

Need Information about seizure type?

04/2006 | 1 Comments

Scalp EEG with scalp elecrtodes of International 10/20 system - Age 4 1/2 at that time now 7 1/2 Background consisted of a fair well regulated alpha...
Beta blockers and myoclonus...clue?

04/2006 | 1 Comments

Hello all, I previously posted the thread "Should I even bother checking this out?" and well, I went in to see a doctor finally. She referred me to a...
Is a spike on an EEG always a seizure?

04/2006 | 1 Comments

My 4 yr old has been diagnosed with DSI and Severe Verbal Apraxia and we just had a 24 hour video monitored EEG. I have to wait 3 weeks for results...
dissociation/absence seizures/eeg/psych

04/2006 | 1 Comments

dear all. hope its ok for me to sign up here. i couldnt see any rules. only ive not been diagnosed epileptic. My psych is sending me for an EEG and i...
help it has happened to me too.

04/2006 | 5 Comments

hi everyone well i have had a eeg and a sleep deprivation eeg and both of the test came back normal ,and like so many my siezures are still carrying...
EEG results... Please help

04/2006 | 0 Comments

Hi. I have a 23 m/o with left hemi from a stroke. She had two abnormal EEGs. Can someone help me to understand them. I so worry about LKS and LGS...
Should I even bother checking it out?

03/2006 | 2 Comments

Hello, I have had weird symptoms all my life but in the past few years have had a new problem emerge that is getting harder and harder to deal with...
How long do EEG's typically take?

03/2006 | 1 Comments

I'm scheduled to have an EEG next month to try to figure out where my partial seizures are happening. The neurologist who scheduled it did not tell me...
ready to give up

03/2006 | 2 Comments

My son is 12 years old and about 6-7 years ago he had what was told to me was a seizure. What happend then and still happens till this day is that his...
Just rambling

03/2006 | 0 Comments

Starting about five weeks ago had multiple daily seizures (or so I believe them to be) weird mental/visual pictures of colors and deja vu over the...
Questions on Kids EEG

03/2006 | 4 Comments

My 11 month old had an EEG on the 8th and an MRI on the 9th both came back normal. How many times do they do an EEG on little ones before they find...
How do you know what your Diagnoses is?

03/2006 | 1 Comments

Hi. I am trying to figure out what the difference between Epilepsy and a Seizure Disorder is. My first Neurologist has referred me on to another...
How do you know what your Diagnoses is?

03/2006 | 1 Comments

Hi. I am trying to figure out what the difference between Epilepsy and a Seizure Disorder is. My first Neurologist has referred me on to another...
6yr old with complex partial seizures

03/2006 | 4 Comments

my 6 yr old was diagnosed with complex partial seizures, he has complex motor tics as well. i have been to two neuros and neither of them can tell me...
Brain atrophy

03/2006 | 13 Comments

Have any of you diagnosed with epilepsy been told you have brain atophy (enlargement of the ventricles of the brain)? While I was told that my...
Does My mom have epilepsy????? Help!

02/2006 | 3 Comments

My sister had her baby on Friday morning, and while we were all there seeing the baby in the labor room, my mother told me she didn't feel too good...
Weird Symptoms

02/2006 | 2 Comments

I've been going through loops of seeing different doctors for the past 6 months. It started with my physical. I saw my doctor and everything seemed...

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