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pam smith

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Have I Had a Compex Partial Seizure?
Posted: 10-14-05 19:13pm

Hi, I am a 42 yr old mom and teacher who has been having memory loss, headaches daily, and moments where I feel dazed...Kinda like brain fog for a few months now. Drs. Are unsure what's wrong. I find myself doing things and don't remember doing them so I go back and ck..Kinda like ocd.. Sometimes I am driving on a familiar road and miss my turn...I feel like I am going nuts !! My doctor had me go for a cat today and eeg...Possible brain thing..Seizures of some sort...Or worse a brain tumor. Has anyone had anything remotely similar to this ...Help please. Thanks. Pam
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pianist995

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Re: Have I Had a Compex Partial Seizure?
Posted: 10-17-05 13:42pm

pam smith wrote:
hi, I am a 42 yr old mom and teacher who has been having memory loss, headaches daily, and moments where I feel dazed...Kinda like brain fog for a few months now. Drs. Are unsure what's wrong. I find myself doing things and don't remember doing them so I go back and ck..Kinda like ocd.. Sometimes I am driving on a familiar road and miss my turn...I feel like I am going nuts !! My doctor had me go for a cat today and eeg...Possible brain thing..Seizures of some sort...Or worse a brain tumor. Has anyone had anything remotely similar to this ...Help please. Thanks. Pam


hey,

i have had at least one complex partial seizure, and it was the type where you don't remember, thus the 'complex' portion of that. The only way I really knew was I woke up to my husband telling me I had had another seizure. (my first one was 7 months before that, and I think more of a grand mal). But it would affect my memory pretty bad for about a week, my short term memory the most. So it may very well be that. Hopefully the eeg and ct scan, or even maybe an mri if they do that, will show something. None of those tests showed anything on me, I only knew because my husband saw it. It's pretty scary, especially since for a while, he would be gone from monday through friday or saturday, working out of town. Hopefully those tests will show something, and though I wouldn't wish it on anyone, hopefully it's only seizures and not a brain tumor. I've had two grandparents who had brain tumors. One was fatal, the other was removed successfully, so those are scary too. Best of luck, and feel free to email me if you want to, I know support helps a lot.

-desiree
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kayakmom

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Posted: 11-05-05 18:06pm

I hope you have found some answers now! Complex partials can have some odd symptoms like you mention. My son has complex partials....Often I can tell he just is not all there, but he can walk and talk during them.....
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