Hi, I don't really know if this goes here but I'm going to give it a shot. I'll try and keep it from getting too long and confusing. Basically, here's my story: I'm 19 years old and on March 3rd I had open heart surgery to repair a weak valve. For about two weeks before the surgery I started having mild seizures -- feeling lightheaded before my fingers and toes would start to tingle and I would lose conciousness, collapse, and tremble for 1-3 minutes at a time. My doctors told me they were due to the lack of oxygen and blood flow traveling to by brain from the weakened valve. The surgery was to not only fix my heart, but would also "correct" my seizure problem.
Its been over a month now and my heart and blood pressure are both looking great (thankfully). Unfortunately, the seizures have not. They did not start again immidiately after the surgury, only returned as of the past two weeks. I had a EEG, CAT Scan, and am scheduled for an MRI tomorrow. I am still waiting on the culmination of these tests to hopefully tell me what is wrong, but I am getting anxious. Epilepsy has been thrown around as a possible diagnosis and I wanted to know if anyone had any information or anything similar to my confusion. If not, can anyone at least tell me what kind of seizures these might be? Thank you, any input is appreciated.
- Genevieve, the Clueless
Its been over a month now and my heart and blood pressure are both looking great (thankfully). Unfortunately, the seizures have not. They did not start again immidiately after the surgury, only returned as of the past two weeks. I had a EEG, CAT Scan, and am scheduled for an MRI tomorrow. I am still waiting on the culmination of these tests to hopefully tell me what is wrong, but I am getting anxious. Epilepsy has been thrown around as a possible diagnosis and I wanted to know if anyone had any information or anything similar to my confusion. If not, can anyone at least tell me what kind of seizures these might be? Thank you, any input is appreciated.
- Genevieve, the Clueless
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