Is She Really Epileptic?? Help. Posted: 02-15-07 21:37pm
Hi,
i'm looking for feedback from the forum.
My 32 year old sister was diagnosed about
2.5 years ago with partial complex
seziures. Prior to the diagnosis she
was living w/ my parents and I believed
very depressed. She does has severe
migraines where she will need to lie down
and they can wipe her out. Well when
this started she kept going to different
drs whom did numerous test, eeg, ekg, mri
ect...They all came back positive. She
went to a few different neurologist whose
said there is nothing wrong with her.
But the last one said you "could" be
having parital complex seziures and put
her on tons of medicine. To this day no
one has ever seen her have a seizure.
She constantly complains that she doesn't
feel good...(back, head, stomach) there
is always an ailment and I don't know what
to do. She was admitted to the hospital
for 2 days and all the test were done
again w/ normal results. Here is my
question....Do you believe she could be
making her self sick and is it possible
the medicine is acting as a toxin if she
is not actually having seziures.
Desperately looking for input. I love
her dearly and I don't know what to do.
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Joined: 16 May 2007 Posts: 4
Posted: 05-16-07 15:10pm
i thought the same thing about myself for
a while.. i have been diagnosed with
Absence (petit mal) seizures.. no one can
be really aware of them well these types
of seizures.
what happens is the person may appear to
be involved with the environment and
briefly stop what they are doing, stare
for 5 to 10 seconds, and then continue
their activity. No memory of the event
exits.
so i dont really know when i am having
them.. and others may not even notice them
either.. so this may be what she has.
i do have severe migraines also.. a lot
really. i get them like at least once a
week sometimes once every two weeks (at
the least).
i was put on several different meds over
the past 9 years and i stoped taking them
with out my doctors permission about a
year ago, cause the meds that i was on
were only making me worse.. cause he uped
the dose and i was getting all the
sysptems and i didnt like them.. and i
thought i dont even think i need these
cause i am not even really seeing myself
having these seizures .. so i did so and
then i only got worse and had more and
more migraines .. so i got back on the
meds and i am doing great ..
so what i think is that maybe she is on
too high of a dose of meds, so maybe she
should talk to her doctor about the proper
dose that is right for her and just see
what happends from there.. cause you do
not want to stop any meds .. that is the
worst thing you can do while having
epilepsy.
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