any ideas?

[petero]

any ideas on how to do an EEG at home?
I'd looked up some info on building simple units at home, from a motherboard and solder, yadda, which is not that implausible...
the software would be a different matter

I don't really want to go spend a week in an extended stay study in the hospital. I find it a daunting consideration, primarily because I'm a pack-a-day smoker!!
it sounds pathetic of me - but likewise going from 60 miles per hour to zero miles per hour in 0 seconds does not sound fun either
sure, ironic I'm comparing a healthy consideration to a likely fatal one, but you might get the gist - especially if you're a smoker...

I need a cigarette

btw I have zero insurance and am in a local teaching hospital's program which offers discounted assistance

[epileric]

You have to realize that no doctor worth their weight will ever let a home-made device determine their opinion/perception of a patients medical situation.

There are ambulatory EEGs that you can wear around but usually when asked to stay that long for an EEG it is so that they can conduct other tests on you & use the EEG to record your neural reactions.

[petero]

thanks epileric-
ya, I know the results would lack much scientific credibility, but just curious I guess

[elizzza811]

I'm a smoker and I begged my neurologist for a 72-hour ambulatory EEG over the stay in the hospital she had originally been pushing. I was lucky - I was able to convince her to order the 72-hour ambulatory EEG and it came back abnormal, showing definitive seizure potential. If it hadn't shown anything out of the ordinary, the 72-hour is the longest ambulatory EEG they offer, so I'd have had no choice than to have sucked up to a hospital stay - and I'd have gone insane without my smokes.

You may be able to work with your doctor though. I know when she wanted me to have a sleep study, I mentioned how nuts I'd go without my cigarettes - she actually went back and talked to the girls, explained I was a smoker, and they agreed to let me take one or two smoke breaks during the study. Turns out the sleep specialist didn't think I needed a sleep study, but it was calming to know that if he had, I'd have been allowed smoke breaks.