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Hello all,
Early January I was diagnosed with partial seizures in my left temporal lobe at age 24. There is no clear cause aside from perhaps a lack of oxygen when I was first born, which makes sense because I was kept at the hospital for a few extra days. Anyway, I have been working with different medications such as: keppra, lamictal, trileptal, and topamax. Topamax helped the most but completely changed my personality, while lamictal is an awesome mood stabilizers but does nothing for my spells.
Here's the deal, though. I was put under video monitoring in April, but they found no real clear seizure activity. My fall semester at school was extremely rough (I missed about half my classes) so my neurologist suggested another session. So here I am, laying in the hospital bed with wires glued onto my head. It's pretty fashionable I must say.
I had an episode here yesterday but no clear recorded seizure. To clarify, my symptoms are: light headedness, derealization, sometimes dizzy, nausea (kind of a new one for me). Afterwards it feels like my head is "catching up" and is almost always accompanied by a headache and excessive tiredness. I can also become extremely emotional.
The derealization is the biggest stresser for me during this. It sounds morbid but it's like if I died right there it wouldn't change a thing for me. I'm not suicidal lol but that's honestly the best way I can describe it. I hope someone knows what I am talking about when I say that.
Is there anything else this could be if it's not seizures since the EEG isnt recording a clear one?? I do have some abnormal activity but nothing huge. My MRI shows signs of migraine so I imagine some of it is that.
Sorry for the long post!! I just get myself scared easily.
edit: My last MRI was in January when I was diagnosed. Also, there is absolutely no family history that we know of. I should also add that I've been diagnosed with clinical depression for about 10 years now, and I've had PTSD for about two. The only thing is these symptoms I have happen randomly 90% of the time.
Early January I was diagnosed with partial seizures in my left temporal lobe at age 24. There is no clear cause aside from perhaps a lack of oxygen when I was first born, which makes sense because I was kept at the hospital for a few extra days. Anyway, I have been working with different medications such as: keppra, lamictal, trileptal, and topamax. Topamax helped the most but completely changed my personality, while lamictal is an awesome mood stabilizers but does nothing for my spells.
Here's the deal, though. I was put under video monitoring in April, but they found no real clear seizure activity. My fall semester at school was extremely rough (I missed about half my classes) so my neurologist suggested another session. So here I am, laying in the hospital bed with wires glued onto my head. It's pretty fashionable I must say.
I had an episode here yesterday but no clear recorded seizure. To clarify, my symptoms are: light headedness, derealization, sometimes dizzy, nausea (kind of a new one for me). Afterwards it feels like my head is "catching up" and is almost always accompanied by a headache and excessive tiredness. I can also become extremely emotional.
The derealization is the biggest stresser for me during this. It sounds morbid but it's like if I died right there it wouldn't change a thing for me. I'm not suicidal lol but that's honestly the best way I can describe it. I hope someone knows what I am talking about when I say that.
Is there anything else this could be if it's not seizures since the EEG isnt recording a clear one?? I do have some abnormal activity but nothing huge. My MRI shows signs of migraine so I imagine some of it is that.
Sorry for the long post!! I just get myself scared easily.
edit: My last MRI was in January when I was diagnosed. Also, there is absolutely no family history that we know of. I should also add that I've been diagnosed with clinical depression for about 10 years now, and I've had PTSD for about two. The only thing is these symptoms I have happen randomly 90% of the time.
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