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Topic: Diagnostic Dilemmas and Testing

Possible seizure? Please help

11/2005 | 3 Comments

GENERAL BACKGROUND: I was diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy a little more than a year ago. I was skeptical of the diagnosis, so I went to a...
Seizures?

11/2005 | 10 Comments

Hi to all of you. I have a similar situation to several people posting on this site. My eeg and MRI came back normal, but I have exhibited symptoms of...
A query about epilepsy

10/2005 | 1 Comments

One of the symptoms of Epilepsy stated here is - Eyes becoming glossy Is it possible to have only this symptom, confirming 'epilepsy' or this may be...
Anyone have these strange symptoms

10/2005 | 0 Comments

I have had migraines with aura for 3 years and was treated with Topamax, which worked great, although it killed my short term memory. Within the last...
going into hospital....

09/2005 | 4 Comments

Well I went to the epileptologist for the first time yesterday.I really liked her,so that's a good thing!Since all my tests came back normal she wants...
MRI query

09/2005 | 0 Comments

Can anyone please shed some light on these results from an MRI scan? "Three foci of abnormal high signal were seen. The largest of these was in the...
Am I having seizures?

09/2005 | 3 Comments

Hi I don't know if anyone out there can help me.. I have been having these odd turns for a couple of years now and thought I was going out of my mind...
Frustrated!!

08/2005 | 2 Comments

I'm extremely frustrated as I think I've had TLE for the past 15 years and can't get the diagnosis or support that I need to get through this. I just...
need a doc, had a doc- a great one

08/2005 | 2 Comments

I've been active on here since I joined, here's another dilema. Best doc I ever had, a neuro- Sandy Mc Gaffigan, here in atl. she finally diagnosed me...
Confuse

08/2005 | 4 Comments

Hi Everyone. I just turned 17 and I’m a bit confuse. When I was 10 I was diagonis with Absence Epilepsy. I took medicen to reduce them and every few...
Prior to a sleep-deprived EEG (help)

07/2005 | 9 Comments

Hi, I will do a sleep deprived EEG friday, I never did this. I don't know what to do thursday. Can we eat in the night before? I know we can't take...
Chat?

07/2005 | 6 Comments

Hi, If someone wants to chat. I am very stressed about possibility of tle and sd eeg soon... thanks Van xx
arm/shoulder jerks help with diagnosis?

07/2005 | 23 Comments

I have been re-reading notes I made about my son in 2003 (hoped I wouldn't need them anymore but symptoms are back again) and hoped anyone who has...

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