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Meant to post this here, but it wound up in "The Kitchen" instead.
Hi! I posted earlier in a thread titled "Newbie" about my wife's recent history of seizures. Yesterday, she had a long consultation appointment at the Neurology Clinic of the University of Florida (Shands) Hospital. After taking her history, the doc decided that she will have an ambulatory eeg done over a period of several days in the hopes of "capturing" one of her seizures which so far only happen at work.
I guess our questions are, how does this work? Is this something that fits over her head and can be covered with a ball cap or a kerchief or something? They indicated that we will have to travel back to the hospital to have the data "downloaded" in order to accomplish the next day's test. I presume I will be doing this each evening (75-mile round trip) for her for several days, as she is no longer allowed to drive.
Finally, my wife also suffers from diabetes, and is poorly controlled with lots of recent severe hypoglycemic episodes unrelated to the seizures. Does anyone have any input on whether her history of hypoglycemic (insulin shock) episodes could be a contributing factor in a 65-year old otherwise healthy woman presenting with mild seizures all of a sudden? How about hyperglycemia, where her blood sugar goes sky high for a while? I fear that years of being "brittle" are now causing this payback, although I haven't heard that from a doctor yet.
Ocala Mike
Hi! I posted earlier in a thread titled "Newbie" about my wife's recent history of seizures. Yesterday, she had a long consultation appointment at the Neurology Clinic of the University of Florida (Shands) Hospital. After taking her history, the doc decided that she will have an ambulatory eeg done over a period of several days in the hopes of "capturing" one of her seizures which so far only happen at work.
I guess our questions are, how does this work? Is this something that fits over her head and can be covered with a ball cap or a kerchief or something? They indicated that we will have to travel back to the hospital to have the data "downloaded" in order to accomplish the next day's test. I presume I will be doing this each evening (75-mile round trip) for her for several days, as she is no longer allowed to drive.
Finally, my wife also suffers from diabetes, and is poorly controlled with lots of recent severe hypoglycemic episodes unrelated to the seizures. Does anyone have any input on whether her history of hypoglycemic (insulin shock) episodes could be a contributing factor in a 65-year old otherwise healthy woman presenting with mild seizures all of a sudden? How about hyperglycemia, where her blood sugar goes sky high for a while? I fear that years of being "brittle" are now causing this payback, although I haven't heard that from a doctor yet.
Ocala Mike