misdiagnosis

Hi All, I am new here. My husband is a truck driver and has had a few funny turns over the last few years, bouts of dizziness, tunnel vision, sweating, general feeling of fear not able to get his head together. I have always thought it was a panic attack because my husband suffers with anxiety...

6 mo plus since I've seen neuro same dr , can you believe this shit they think it's a factitus disorder. Because of previous medical history , observations of kin and people who have called 911. previous test was inconclusive with pro.dia. PNES (Rant) Then after that this shit piss me off so...

Hi everyone, After reading some posts, I decided to register to be a member. So glad to find this site. My nephew was dianogsed with absence seizure epilepsy when he was 2.5 and has been being on medication for 2 years now. Recently, we were advised that he would need to be on drugs for 2-3...

Hi, new to this too! Joined today because I need some support because my anger is too intense at losing my driver's license and the poor treatment by my ex-neurologist. I'm not sure if I'm correctly diagnosed as my experience with the neurologist and his PA has been terrible but that's going to...

My name is Mairy and i currently reside in NYC. I had my first seizure when I was 14 and my second when I was 15 (7 months after the first episode). I am 23 years old and this past June I had my third seizure according to my neurologist. The reason why i joined this community is not to get easy...

A moment of unresponsiveness; the inability to recall what just happened; convulsions or jerking movements; sudden stiffness of the body: These are classic symptoms of an epilepsy seizure -- triggered by abnormal electrical impulses in the brain. And while these symptoms may indicate epilepsy...

I was diagnosed as having "mesial temporal sclerosis" 4 years ago after experiencing my first grand mal seizure. I recently had another mri done (new neurologist) and he thinks i could have a "low-grade astrocytoma," which is a tumor. however, this new neurologist didnt compare my results from...

Complex Partial Seizures Present Diagnostic Challenge by Richard Restak, M.D. September 1995, Vol. XII, Issue 9 ------------------------------------- Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), now more commonly called complex partial seizure disorder so as to include seizures that originate in the...

I was just signing off when a scientist sent me this article on another heart condition easily misdiagnosed as epilepsy. If Aimee Will sees this; absence seizures can be one of the symptoms. It is on Medscape and you can register for a free account if you don't have one. "Long-QT Syndrome...

Hi folks, This came in my mail today from a cardiologist who runs this board at About.com. A must read! "In the Spotlight The Mistaken Diagnosis of Epilepsy - Another Cause In the October, 2007 issue of Heart Rhythm, physicians from Belgium report that young patients may be receiving the...

News - Drug-resistant epilepsy - is it worth trying yet another AED? This news will likely encourage neuros to continue trying different meds when patients haven't responded to several already, but what if the medical world woke up and realized there was an even better alternative? For a...