[Info] Why doctors jump to psychogenic seizure diagnosis

[Endless]

How to best work with your doctor, and why some go to the psychosomatic diagnosis when they don't know what's wrong. Also how to think together with them to reach a complete (and more accurate) diagnosis.

Article: When doctors don't know what's wrong

[RobinN]

Great article Endless.

[bruce]

took 38 years for me to finaly get a diagnosis . I know now that I was having seizures all my life { somehow un-diagnosed } . i went thru hell in school and in my daily life . things like being put in the corner or getting a good smack by my teachers { yeah back then teachers where allowed to do that } . there was the usual name calling by kids. At home I was sent to bed with no dinner for " mis-behaving " many any times. { on almost all of these times I was punished i could never remember what I had done.
Somehow I managed to write off 31 cars throughout my driving career { and have no recall of any of the accidents } without raising suspicion of a neurological cause, until my 38th birthday when, I drove my pick-up truck at 100 miles an hour down the wrong side of canadas biggest highway { the 401} I managed to drive 50 km bouncing off of vehichle after vehichle until i finaly hit an 18 wheeler head on.
The incredible thing is that NO ONE WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED INCLUDING MYSELF.
I was still in the seizure when they managed to cut me out of what was left of my truck.
I have watched the news video of this day , yet i have no recall of acvtually being there.
I NO LONGER DRIVE.

[Endless]

Bruce,

That's nuts! Did the doctors have some type of diagnosis at all? since when is losing consciousness at least 31 times a normal thing?

I am so glad you made it through all that safely, along with everyone else. You had someone somewhere looking after you.

[bruce]

" you had someone looking after you " wow yeah. Im not a big believer in " GOD" but im pretty sure we all have our " someone " out there.. i find it amazing , incredible, odds defying, unbelievable. that in all the car accidents i have had throughout my life the worst injury has been 2 broken ribs { myself } caused by my seatbelt. Other then a few bumps and bruises no one else has been injured .
maybe i ought to send my driving record to the boys at GUINESS lol