I can hardly type this. My son is 4 and has had 2 seizure spells (we thought he just fainted) in the past 6 months. The first one we called 911, went to ER, etc. They said everyone gets a free pass on their first seizure. Ok, made sense. Fast forward to a few weeks back he had another one. This time we went to his doctor. She sent us for an EEG, which came back abnormal. Here is what it says. Abnormal EEG in wake and drowsiness due to the presence of focal, intermittent spikes or sharp waves, maximal in the left temporal derivations.
My freak out concern is here where it says "a structural abnormality cannot be ruled out on EEG". Is this normal? or does that mean that his spikes were not like someone with epilepsy and they believe it could be a growth or tumor?
I want to be honest and say that I don't trust doctors to tell you how they feel really. I mean, she said that because he does not have any other symptoms that she does not think it is a tumor, but I read where left temporal lobes develop them and most of the time they only show up bc of a seizure.
I know I have to wait 2 weeks for apt with specialist and MRI but just talking and asking helps.
My freak out concern is here where it says "a structural abnormality cannot be ruled out on EEG". Is this normal? or does that mean that his spikes were not like someone with epilepsy and they believe it could be a growth or tumor?
I want to be honest and say that I don't trust doctors to tell you how they feel really. I mean, she said that because he does not have any other symptoms that she does not think it is a tumor, but I read where left temporal lobes develop them and most of the time they only show up bc of a seizure.
I know I have to wait 2 weeks for apt with specialist and MRI but just talking and asking helps.