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Since being diagnosed, (I really am not sure how long ago-I don't have a sense of time- part of my TBI) I think it was the summer before last maybe.
Anyway, since my diagnosis I have struggled with "maybe I don't really have epilepsy". It is kind of strange, because before I was diagnosed I thought I might be having some type of seizures but didn't tell the dr that because I "knew" I had to be wrong and didn't want to give him any ideas.
Shortly after my brain injury I had an MRI and an EEG that didn't show anything. I know that isn't conclusive, but in my case I hadn't yet had anything resembling a seizure at that time. They didn't show up until about 3 months after I got hurt.
I had no idea my simple partials were seizures until the dr told me and I researched it. Those are just weird. It was the "zoning out" that I felt might be seizures. My neuro told me that those were complex partials. I am so out of it during them that I don't really know what is happening but sort of do. Afterward I am so confused and can't talk well.
Ok, all I just wrote should convince me I have seizures. But now that the med has been raised to a point where I don't have them anymore, I have doubts and want to stop taking the medication.
I realize that all this is irrational, but it is nice to have people to talk to about it who might understand.
Kerin
Anyway, since my diagnosis I have struggled with "maybe I don't really have epilepsy". It is kind of strange, because before I was diagnosed I thought I might be having some type of seizures but didn't tell the dr that because I "knew" I had to be wrong and didn't want to give him any ideas.
Shortly after my brain injury I had an MRI and an EEG that didn't show anything. I know that isn't conclusive, but in my case I hadn't yet had anything resembling a seizure at that time. They didn't show up until about 3 months after I got hurt.
I had no idea my simple partials were seizures until the dr told me and I researched it. Those are just weird. It was the "zoning out" that I felt might be seizures. My neuro told me that those were complex partials. I am so out of it during them that I don't really know what is happening but sort of do. Afterward I am so confused and can't talk well.
Ok, all I just wrote should convince me I have seizures. But now that the med has been raised to a point where I don't have them anymore, I have doubts and want to stop taking the medication.
I realize that all this is irrational, but it is nice to have people to talk to about it who might understand.
Kerin