Hi everyone, I've just found this place and thought I'd join! I'm 33 and live in York.
In February this year, I had my first seizure, where my body was twitching, I came out of the fit and was not aware of my surroundings, my partner and was generally confused. (I don't remember this, my partner told me afterwards) I was taken to a&e, where they took a blood sample and asked me to go and see my gp as the symptoms had gone by this time and they were unable to help.
I went to see my gp who reffered me to neurolgy where I saw the Consultant and she arranged an mri scan and an eeg. These were both negative.
I am continuing to have these episodes twice a week, I remember nothing about them afterwards and my partner tells me, I do not have the fits at the moment, but I gaze into space, my head will loll to one side, I start to pick at my clothing, lick my lips and then have no idea of where I am, who I am with etc and am generally confused for 10 minutes, sometimes I cry but am always left with a terrible headache on the left hand side of my head.
I had a sleep deprived eeg over 9 weeks ago and am still waiting for the results of this test as the nerology department seems to be working very slowly at the moment!!
My older Brother has temperal lobe epilepsy and absence seizures controlled by medication. He was diagnosed at 29. Could there be a connection?
Whoops sorry I am rambling, I didn't mean to go on so long!!
Hope to hear from some people on here soon, thanks for reading!!
In February this year, I had my first seizure, where my body was twitching, I came out of the fit and was not aware of my surroundings, my partner and was generally confused. (I don't remember this, my partner told me afterwards) I was taken to a&e, where they took a blood sample and asked me to go and see my gp as the symptoms had gone by this time and they were unable to help.
I went to see my gp who reffered me to neurolgy where I saw the Consultant and she arranged an mri scan and an eeg. These were both negative.
I am continuing to have these episodes twice a week, I remember nothing about them afterwards and my partner tells me, I do not have the fits at the moment, but I gaze into space, my head will loll to one side, I start to pick at my clothing, lick my lips and then have no idea of where I am, who I am with etc and am generally confused for 10 minutes, sometimes I cry but am always left with a terrible headache on the left hand side of my head.
I had a sleep deprived eeg over 9 weeks ago and am still waiting for the results of this test as the nerology department seems to be working very slowly at the moment!!
My older Brother has temperal lobe epilepsy and absence seizures controlled by medication. He was diagnosed at 29. Could there be a connection?
Whoops sorry I am rambling, I didn't mean to go on so long!!
Hope to hear from some people on here soon, thanks for reading!!
