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Topic: Diagnostic Dilemmas and Testing

I'm panicking!

02/2006 | 5 Comments

I've read about others going in for VEEG countless times, yet, now that it's my turn, I am SCARED. I know, the process isn't painful. It's dull...I am...
Is not medicating EVER an option?

02/2006 | 2 Comments

My neurologist *thinks* I am having seizures. I say *thinks* because he is not certain, and 3 EEGs and an MRI show nothing abnormal. My episodes have...
MRI - Artifacts?

01/2006 | 0 Comments

Can anyone tell me what it means when the MRI shows normal shading, but shows artifacts in the area of the base of the skull?! These were the results...
sleep deprivation eeg

01/2006 | 8 Comments

hi every one can any one tell me what a sleep deprivation eeg is and what it entails? i know i should of asked more questions when i saw my neuro but...
Absence Seizures at 17 months?

01/2006 | 3 Comments

Does anyone know if there are cases of Absence Seizures happen in children who are 17 months old? Is that possible?
Sleep Apnea causing epilepsy?!

01/2006 | 19 Comments

Hello everyone, I hope everybody had a great christmas/new year! I had a question about Sleep Apnea causing epi. on the day after christmas I had...
Seizures or Migraines....Drs. don't know

01/2006 | 7 Comments

It's a feeling like I'm ice skating, right next to a cliff. I keep skating up to the edge and stop, but eventually I don't stop, and go right over the...
wondering about eeg

12/2005 | 8 Comments

Hello. I'd much appreciate some feedback on this: I've had inconclusive investigations over the past 3-4 years, since a L temporal lobe abnormality...
topamax and eeg

12/2005 | 1 Comments

Has anyone heard of Topamax causing a false reading on an EEG? My family doctor sent me to a neurologist because of headaches. The neurologist wanted...
Do i have epilipsy??

12/2005 | 9 Comments

hey guys big question i know, seems like yo gotta go through a lot of scans and doctors before they can tell you for sure!!! anyway the topic of de ja...
Q Re: EEG's

11/2005 | 2 Comments

Can someone have a 'normal' EEG and still have seizure activity?
Blood Test Helps Spot Epileptic Seizure

11/2005 | 1 Comments

I found this a few weeks ago and thougth it was worth sharing. Very interesting article,,, http://health.ivillage.com/brain/0,,wbnews_876003bm,00.html...

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