What exactly is the physiological relationship between the neck injury and the seizures?
What types of tests were performed on you, besides the normal EEG, MRI tests and what were the red flags that popped up during the tests?
Was there a concise diagnosis and what was the treatment that worked best for you?
Here are some additional symptoms and possible contributing factors which she has:
Headache and sleepiness following the Seizures
Works in the Virgin islands Kidney dialysis tech
Was recently on an airplane
Stuttering in speech from time to time
Having about 20 seizures a day
Short term memory loss
Heavy coffee drinker
Irregular sleep patterns prior to seizure onset.
50 years old
ANy info you could provide me would be greatly appreciated. This is a scary, new situation for my family and I. I am going to see her in Pennsylvania from Alaska on Monday and would like to pull as much info as possible before I go. Thank you!
Rick
Nakamova,
I have been searching the web for 2 days now attempting to figure out what is happening to my mother who had been hospitalized 2 days ago due to "seizure-like" symptoms. The reason I am writing you specifically is because you stated that you had a neck injury which was a contributing factor to your seizures. My mother also had a neck injury 6 years ago which was caused from falling down a flight of stairs. She had also broken her collar bone during the accident. Ever since the accident, she had facial twitches and her speech was not the same. The seizures did not arrive until recently. They last anywhere from five seconds to as long as 92 seconds.
I had a few questions for you regarding the relationship between your neck injury and the seizures.
Hi Douglas -- I'm in the Boston area. And no it's not cold yet. No frost, and last weekend it made it up into the 70s! Southern Maine is probably a bit chillier now -- I was up in the Rockland area a few weekends ago and it was definitely nippy.
Onset of idiopathic epilepsy at age 35.
Occasional seizures in the years since as I've adjusted to meds and/or attempted to go off (under neurologist's supervision).