On tuesday at 8am my son was admitted to the hospital and wired up for a VEEG. We were there until thursday at 1pm. 53 hours. The doctor and resident said to go home, the nurses felt that we should have stayed. (My son is 5 1/2 months old.)
There entire time that he was there his brain waves were completely normal. But he never had one of his 'episodes' (as the doctors are calling them). We got home from the hospital at 3:05pm and less than two hours later, just before 5pm, he had one.
Anyway, the doctors are saying that they don't no whether or not his episodes are truely seizures, because 98% of people with seizures have abnormal brain activity even when they are not having a seizure. And that his episodes are probably harmless. But to be honest I really did not like this doctor. On tuesday, when we met him for the first time, he asked me what my son's pediatrician had said. I told him that the pediatrician didn't say anything other than that the 'episodes' sounded like seizures and that we needed to see a neurologist. And that the neurologist would probably do tests like EEGs, CT scans, MRIs, bloodwork... Then the doctor freaked out at me! He started saying things like how he was glad that the pediatrician was telling him how to do his job. The neurologist was literally yelling at me about it and I had never even said anything bad... I don't know it was just really weird.
Anyway he goes back in august for a check-up. They are saying that as long as my son continues to develop within normal limits they will probably not bother him with any other tests.