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Hi, I am 21 and my younger brother is 19. About 8 months ago, my brother had 5 seizures (one after the other) following drinking a large amount of alcohol (as young people do). He was rushed to hospital unresponsive but came around and returned back to normal within a few days with no obvious cause stated by the doctors but the excess amount of alcohol. 6 weeks later, we were on a family holiday abroad. He was dehydrated with traveller’s tummy and had gone for a jog. After returning from his jog, he had two seizures (one after another) and came round very quickly being back to normal within around 10 minutes following the initial post-ictal state and even dressing himself ready to go the hospital (an ambulance was called whilst he was unresponsive). We have since returned and he has had all of the relevant tests done including EEG, sleep-deprived EEG, MRI and ECG. It was stated that no obvious cause was found for his seizures however the cardiologist advised he have a heart monitor fitted for 3 years as he believed nobody had seizures for no reason. My brother is 19 and months on just wants to live a normal life of a 19 year old and have a drink with his mates etc however the idea of what could happen to him has all of our family in pieces. His licence was revoked for a year. He now keeps well-hydrated drinking litre bottles of water at a time, eating regularly etc. Is it possible an individual can have seizures from severe dehydration or not? We are extremely worried and the stress of him being poorly again we just can’t seem to shake off.

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OK he had 5 seizures (may be

Submitted by just_joe on Mon, 2018-02-19 - 21:55

OK he had 5 seizures (may be because of drinking) He then had 2 0thers during his running. All are known. All relevant tests were done.. EEG,MRI a sleep deprived EEG and ECG. No cause was found for his seizures.. The cardiologist wants a heart moniter because he says nobody has seizures for no reason. Too many people with epilepsy have no known cause and tests have no answers. There is also a PNES aka Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. They look exactly like epileptic seizures and tests will not help with them either You do need to ask the cardiologist if they know any frigging thing having to do with neurological disorders. I can say that all that was needed to diagnose epilepsy was 2 seizures that ere known. I had 20-25 different EEG's that came back normal. That didn't mean I wasn't having seizures because I was. I wasn't a cardiologist that diagnosed me. At that time I hadn't seen a neurologist. It was a family doctor. Well a country doctor that treats anybody that needed doctor. He prescribed the meds. It was the insurance company that demanded testing so I went for tests and was run thru the tests. sleep deprived EEG several other EEG's and a test I wouldn't want to give my enemy that was the MRI of the 1960's they had seen nothing. The last test was another EEg which was even longer and that one is the one I fell asleep in. Well that EEG came back with abnormalities. By seeing them the neurologists then went back and looked loser at that MRI thingy and they found scar tissue in the left lobes of my brain. So find him a neurologist preferably one that specializes in epilepsy to go over his medical files and do talk to them about all of these issues. Your brother an have a normal life. I sure did. But when I went to clubs with friends I limited my drinking. One alcoholic drink in a 4 hour period of time. A beer or 3 in that period of time/ Friends would buy me a drink but the bar tenders knew my limits and mad them look like everybody else's but without alcohol.

OK he had 5 seizures (may be because of drinking) He then had 2 0thers during his running. All are known. All relevant tests were done.. EEG,MRI a sleep deprived EEG and  ECG. No cause was found for his seizures.. The cardiologist wants a heart moniter because he says nobody has seizures for no reason. Too many people with epilepsy have no known cause and tests have no answers. There is also a PNES aka Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. They look exactly like epileptic seizures and tests will not help with them either You do need to ask the cardiologist if they know any frigging thing having to do with neurological disorders. I can say that all that was needed to diagnose epilepsy was 2 seizures that ere known. I had 20-25 different EEG's that came back normal. That didn't mean I wasn't having seizures because I was. I wasn't a cardiologist that diagnosed me. At that time I hadn't seen a neurologist. It was a family doctor. Well  a country doctor that treats anybody that needed  doctor. He prescribed the meds. It was the insurance company that demanded testing so I went for tests and was run thru the tests. sleep deprived EEG several other EEG's and a test I wouldn't want to give my enemy that was the MRI of the 1960's they had seen nothing. The last test was another EEg which was even longer and that one is the one I fell asleep in. Well that EEG came back with abnormalities. By seeing them the neurologists then went back and looked loser at that MRI thingy and they found scar tissue in the left lobes of my brain. So find him a neurologist preferably one that specializes in epilepsy to go over his medical files and do talk to them about all of these issues. Your brother an have a normal life. I sure did. But when I went to clubs with friends I limited my drinking. One alcoholic drink in a 4 hour period of time. A beer or 3 in that period of time/ Friends would buy me a drink but the bar tenders knew my limits and mad them look like everybody else's but without alcohol.

OK he had 5 seizures (may be because of drinking) He then had 2 0thers during his running. All are known. All relevant tests were done.. EEG,MRI a sleep deprived EEG and ECG. No cause was found for his seizures.. The cardiologist wants a heart moniter because he says nobody has seizures for no reason. Too many people with epilepsy have no known cause and tests have no answers. There is also a PNES aka Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. They look exactly like epileptic seizures and tests will not help with them either You do need to ask the cardiologist if they know any frigging thing having to do with neurological disorders. I can say that all that was needed to diagnose epilepsy was 2 seizures that ere known. I had 20-25 different EEG's that came back normal. That didn't mean I wasn't having seizures because I was. I wasn't a cardiologist that diagnosed me. At that time I hadn't seen a neurologist. It was a family doctor. Well a country doctor that treats anybody that needed doctor. He prescribed the meds. It was the insurance company that demanded testing so I went for tests and was run thru the tests. sleep deprived EEG several other EEG's and a test I wouldn't want to give my enemy that was the MRI of the 1960's they had seen nothing. The last test was another EEg which was even longer and that one is the one I fell asleep in. Well that EEG came back with abnormalities. By seeing them the neurologists then went back and looked loser at that MRI thingy and they found scar tissue in the left lobes of my brain. So find him a neurologist preferably one that specializes in epilepsy to go over his medical files and do talk to them about all of these issues. Your brother an have a normal life. I sure did. But when I went to clubs with friends I limited my drinking. One alcoholic drink in a 4 hour period of time. A beer or 3 in that period of time/ Friends would buy me a drink but the bar tenders knew my limits and mad them look like everybody else's but without alcohol.

Worried sister

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OK he had 5 seizures (may be

Submitted by just_joe on Mon, 2018-02-19 - 21:55

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