parietal lobe epilepsy

[matsuiny2004]

Is there anybody here that has parietal lobe epilepsy? I want to know since I am not sure if i have it or not and want to know what the symptoms are. I would also like to know your expeiences with it. Expereince would be more helpful since it is so hard to find information on. How you got diagnosed would also be helpful. It would at least help me.

[McGill]

Have you been diagnosed as having parietal lobe epilepsy? That's the first thing we need to know. The parietal lobe of you brain is situated in the centre to back of your brain, just above the back part of your head. If you put your hand on the lowest part of the back of your head, that is the Occipital lobe, used for vision, Your Parietal lobe is in front of that again towards the centre & middle of your brain.

What symptoms can you describe? (I'm no dr., but there are people on this site who are qualified to do so and can answer your questions more fully than me.)

[matsuiny2004]

No I have not been diagnosed with it. Trying to is a real pain. I am hoping to do testing as well as have more in depth eeg's. the 1 hour one was normal. I have a histroy of seizures that were chronic. I am on trileptal currently. Used to take Celexa and ritalin.

I experience random tingling, and burning

disorganized thinking

had a hard time with left and right

abdominal pain, feel like I will throw up

used to experience deja vu

I experience random stinging sensations

random tinnitus

seizures

random respiratory problems

random auditory hallucinations (mostly musical and some voices, I know they are not real)

difficulty with visual spatial task

difficulty on the mental rotation task as well as most visualizing tasks which I read need the parietal lobe.

obssesions

had pain in kidneys recently so far only happened once and only for today

[McGill]

You need to see a neurologist and have an EEG done to correctly diagnose whether or not you have parietal lobe epilepsy. I'm not a dr., but some of what you describe there soesn't seem to fit in within the proper definition of epilepsy. I stand to be corrected on that.

For example kidney pain could be indicative of kidney stones, tinitis is a hearing issue, but I don't know if the rx can affect that. That's usually indicative that the hairs on your inner ear are slowly dying. I've had tinitis for several years and it's hereditary with me. Did you go to any loud concerts and not wear ear protection?

Most importantly, are you on any Rx? The side effects of certain Rx can cause the symptoms you're dwescribing. Again, I'm no authority, but I'd check with a pharmacist and then your GP for a neurologial consult. To try and self-diagnoase something when you're not qualified to do so is very dangerous and unwise.

[Crystal11]

Tinitus is something I have had since I was younger- it had to do with my deafness though. Some RX do cause Tinitus or are "auto-toxic" and can cause hearing loss or damage- but not any seizure med does that I know of.

I agree with most people here- GO TO A DR AND GET neurologist REFERRAL.
What did your last neurologist say about your EEG?
Did you let that neurologist know about your symptoms you have now? If so, what did he/she say?
Even if your EEG is normal, doesnt totally rule our Epilepsy.
You said you had a seizure history? What kind of seizures within your history or currently do you have?


I hope things will get better for you and please let us know how things go.

Take care,
Crystal

[matsuiny2004]

I used to have atonic, myoclonic, complex partial ans secondary general seizures. I am going to look at the documents. My eeg's used to show up abnormal too. I was more recently given I diagnosis of temporal lobe epilepsy becuase I was having constant deja vu, but thanks to trileptal I don't anymore. All recent eeg's are normal. I have experienced almost daily Auditory hallucinations which are mostly musical as well as random tingling and burning sensation. buzzing and ringing sounds in my ear are experienced almost daily, As well as disorganized thinking. Right now I am trying to see what else could be going on and attempting to localize my problem. I am planning on seeing a neuropsychologist as well as getting a 24 hour eeg and if needed a video eeg. I also want to see an epileptoloigist. I think they would help me much more than my neurologist. I was more interested in seeing if there were people on this forum with the condition and what their expereince was and the symptoms they had since parietal lobe epilepsy is underresearched. One of the symptoms is tingling and burning sensation and it can effect other lobes of the brain and appear to be temporal lobe epilepsy or frontal lobe epilepsy.

[Nakamova]

Hi --

The following is from a standard description of Parietal Lobe epilepsy:

"Since the parietal lobe involves the processing and integration of sensory and visual perception, seizures originating from the parietal lobe can involve both sensory and visual sensations. Seizure duration varies, from a few seconds in some patients to a few minutes in others. The following are the different types of symptoms associated with parietal lobe seizures:

Somatosensory Seizures: Patients with these types of seizures describe feeling physical sensations of numbness and tingling, heat, pressure, electricity and/or pain. Pain, though a rare symptom in seizures overall, is quite common in parietal seizures, occurring in up to one quarter of patients.

Somatic Illusions: During a somatic illusion, another common symptom of parietal seizures, patients may experience a feeling like their posture is distorted, that their arms or legs are in a weird position or are in motion when they are not, or that a part of their body is missing or feels like it does not belong.

Vertigo: Patients with parietal seizures may experience a sensation of movement or spinning of the environment, or of their body within the environment.

Visual Illusions and Hallucinations: Patients with visual illusions report a distortion of visual perception: objects seem too close, too far, too large, too small, slanted, moving or otherwise not right. A patient with hallucinations describes seeing objects that seem very real, though in fact they do not exist.

Language Disturbances: Rarely, a patient with a parietal seizure will report difficulty understanding spoken words or language, difficulty reading or performing simple math.