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I’m confused and wondering if anyone has any insight or experience with this: I had an eeg last week. EEG showed generalized seizure activity. Doc wants me to begin medication. I’ve never actually had a seizure though. I was diagnosed 7 years ago with Focal seizures in the temporal lobe, but my symptoms have always been very minimal. I stopped taking meds 5 years ago (had kids, etc). I had this EEG done, new doc, and I fully expected the EEG to be normal and I’d go on my merry way. I don’t meet with him for 3 or 4 weeks. We did speak briefly on the phone, and I’m trying to understand why medication is needed when I’ve never had a seizure. Any thoughts on what all this means? Google hasn’t helped me much. :) -also posted in diagnostic section. But I wondered if I was supposed to post it here since I’m new.

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Seizures can take many forms,

Submitted by mereloaded on Fri, 2018-02-23 - 18:38

Seizures can take many forms, so the ones that got caught on the EEG are mini seizures, abnormal electrical activity. So you mistakingly think that having seizures only means having tonic clinics and that is NOT true. There are several types of seizures including some where people don’t lose consciousness, others that only manifests in small motor manifestations (twitches, jerks etc.), others are as simple as sound hallucinations, Deja vu, being nauseous, or feeling like fainting for a few seconds, sometimes it can be a migraine, or vomiting... some are doing things that you forgot you did, or sleep walking, or seizures that happen at night and you don’t even know it, that’s right, sometimes people don’t know because they have akways had symptoms that are part of their “normal”.The reason it is important to take medication is that untreated epilepsy can lead to your symptoms worsening. Yes, the little tics, of laughter sleeps, or arm jerks CAN and WILL become tonic clonic seizures if left untreated, and believe me, you don’t want to have one of those. And once your brain has one, it will go there every time your brain misfires, that is called a “break through seizure”, when the small little symptoms escalate and one they they become the worse type. This can be easily prevented by taking medication.Last,mI don’t know why do you think you don’t have epilepsy when you have been diagnosed before, took medication before. No one prescribes anti epileptic medication if you wouldn’t need them. Secondly, you have abnormal EEGs and that is irrefutable proof.Don’t gamble with your life and the safety of your family. My son also thought that “he didn’t need” his medication and stopped taking it when he went to college. He had been symptom free for 4 years and got diagnosed when he was 14. Let’s just say he learned the very hard way and had to face the consequences of his denial ( ended up in the hospital after having a tonic clonic in front of everyone in class, had to be medically dismissed from college, had to had his drivers license medically suspended and had to move back home). But he learned. I wish he had learned from folllowing the doctors instructions instead. He has a very mild case and was taken off meds at some point, but it was clear that he needed his prescription once the small little tics and arm jerks started to crawl back in. Do not gamble with your health.

Seizures can take many forms, so the ones that got caught on the EEG are mini seizures, abnormal electrical activity. So you mistakingly think that having seizures only means having tonic clinics and that is NOT true. There are several types of seizures including some where people don’t lose consciousness, others that only manifests in small motor manifestations (twitches, jerks etc.), others are as simple as sound hallucinations, Deja vu, being nauseous, or feeling like fainting for a few seconds, sometimes it can be a migraine, or vomiting... some are doing things that you forgot you did, or sleep walking, or seizures that happen at night and you don’t even know it, that’s right, sometimes people don’t know because they have akways had symptoms that are part of their “normal”.The reason it is important to take medication is that untreated epilepsy can lead to your symptoms worsening. Yes, the little tics, of laughter sleeps, or arm jerks CAN and WILL become tonic clonic seizures if left untreated, and believe me, you don’t want to have one of those. And once your brain has one, it will go there every time your brain misfires, that is called a “break through seizure”, when the small little symptoms escalate and one they they become the worse type. This can be easily prevented by taking medication.Last,mI don’t know why do you think you don’t have epilepsy when you have  been diagnosed before, took medication before. No one prescribes anti epileptic medication if you wouldn’t need them. Secondly, you have abnormal EEGs and that is irrefutable proof.Don’t gamble with your life and the safety of your family. My son also thought that “he didn’t need” his medication and stopped taking it when he went to college. He had been symptom free for 4 years and got diagnosed when he was 14.  Let’s just say he learned the very hard way and had to face the consequences of his denial ( ended up in the hospital after having a tonic clonic in front of everyone in class, had to be medically dismissed from college, had to had his drivers license medically suspended and had to move back home). But he learned. I wish he had learned from folllowing the doctors instructions instead. He has a very mild case and was taken off meds at some point, but it was clear that he needed his prescription once the small little tics and arm jerks started to crawl back in. Do not gamble with your health. 

Seizures can take many forms, so the ones that got caught on the EEG are mini seizures, abnormal electrical activity. So you mistakingly think that having seizures only means having tonic clinics and that is NOT true. There are several types of seizures including some where people don’t lose consciousness, others that only manifests in small motor manifestations (twitches, jerks etc.), others are as simple as sound hallucinations, Deja vu, being nauseous, or feeling like fainting for a few seconds, sometimes it can be a migraine, or vomiting... some are doing things that you forgot you did, or sleep walking, or seizures that happen at night and you don’t even know it, that’s right, sometimes people don’t know because they have akways had symptoms that are part of their “normal”.The reason it is important to take medication is that untreated epilepsy can lead to your symptoms worsening. Yes, the little tics, of laughter sleeps, or arm jerks CAN and WILL become tonic clonic seizures if left untreated, and believe me, you don’t want to have one of those. And once your brain has one, it will go there every time your brain misfires, that is called a “break through seizure”, when the small little symptoms escalate and one they they become the worse type. This can be easily prevented by taking medication.Last,mI don’t know why do you think you don’t have epilepsy when you have been diagnosed before, took medication before. No one prescribes anti epileptic medication if you wouldn’t need them. Secondly, you have abnormal EEGs and that is irrefutable proof.Don’t gamble with your life and the safety of your family. My son also thought that “he didn’t need” his medication and stopped taking it when he went to college. He had been symptom free for 4 years and got diagnosed when he was 14. Let’s just say he learned the very hard way and had to face the consequences of his denial ( ended up in the hospital after having a tonic clonic in front of everyone in class, had to be medically dismissed from college, had to had his drivers license medically suspended and had to move back home). But he learned. I wish he had learned from folllowing the doctors instructions instead. He has a very mild case and was taken off meds at some point, but it was clear that he needed his prescription once the small little tics and arm jerks started to crawl back in. Do not gamble with your health.

New- EEG results confusion

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Seizures can take many forms,

Submitted by mereloaded on Fri, 2018-02-23 - 18:38

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