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Is it actually epilepsy?!?
Wed, 01/17/2018 - 14:32Topic: Family & Friends
My dad was diagnosed with epilepsy 3 1/2 years ago following a number of seizures. He takes kepra and epilim. Most seizures have been tonic clonic and last for up to 10 minutes. He takes a long time to recover following a seizure. Each seizure he has had has destroyed a bit of him each time. It's now got to the point where he is a completely different man. His writing is different, his speech is slurred, his gait is wrong, he can barely walk, he's irritable, he's obsessive over trivial things, very poor appetite He is basically vanishing before our eyes..... An EEG showed nothing. Multiple MRI scans have shown vanishing white matter. Lumber puncture negative.
So my question is, is this all 'normal' for a person with epilepsy? He's 65, a non smoker and prior to the 1st seizure he was fit and healthy in full time employment.
Comments
No cause for the for the
Submitted by Lizm on Thu, 2018-01-18 - 01:13
No cause for the for the vanishing white matter. Doctors have been very flippent about it all.
Multiple MRI scans have shown
Submitted by just_joe on Wed, 2018-01-17 - 18:18
Multiple MRI scans have shown vanishing white matter. Did they come up with the reason for this?? If not then they do need to look into it and where the vanishing matter should help with the diagnosis. That in itself might be the cause for his epilepsy but then too I am not a doctor.