elizzza811
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Sorry, but I think I'm having a nervous breakdown right now. My 24-hour EEG came back 'normal', and I crashed my car back in December. If you remember, I was unable to respond to my neighbor who was freaking out on me while I was crashing. I also wake up having seizures...memory problems, confusion that lasts for hours afterwards. Atonic 'leg collapse' seizures as well, though not as frequent, and I have a scar on my knee to prove it.
I've read that partial or absence seizures are hard to pick up on an EEG...and I had no 'events' during it...but I'm very concerned that the neurologist was ready to just send me on my merry way? Do I have to be dead before they will listen to me?
My questions...what next? Do I request a prolactin test? I forget who told me this, but apparently an elevated prolactin after an 'event' can prove seizures? Which brings me to my next question...are they going to require I 'prove' my seizures, just like they are making me do the impossible with my chronic Lyme, before they put me on seizure meds? I've only had 3 seizures since that one in December. What are the chances that a 48- or 72-hour EEG will pick anything up if they are that infrequent? Infrequent or not though, all it takes is one to crash my car again.
I've read that partial or absence seizures are hard to pick up on an EEG...and I had no 'events' during it...but I'm very concerned that the neurologist was ready to just send me on my merry way? Do I have to be dead before they will listen to me?
My questions...what next? Do I request a prolactin test? I forget who told me this, but apparently an elevated prolactin after an 'event' can prove seizures? Which brings me to my next question...are they going to require I 'prove' my seizures, just like they are making me do the impossible with my chronic Lyme, before they put me on seizure meds? I've only had 3 seizures since that one in December. What are the chances that a 48- or 72-hour EEG will pick anything up if they are that infrequent? Infrequent or not though, all it takes is one to crash my car again.