EEG Report

[specialneeds]

I am looking for more information about this report.

The EEG shows generalized atypical spike and wave discharges during wake, and markedly increased during sleep, which would be consistent with a genrealized seizure disorder.

The EEG shows generalized atypical spike and wave discharges during wake, and markedly increased during sleep, which would be consistent with a generalzed seizure disorder.

Dysrhythmia grade 3 generized atyipical spike and wave discharges. The recording during wakefulmess contains 9 Hz activity over the posterior head regions. Rare generalized atypical and spike and wave discharges were present during recording.

There were fragments of the discharges with variable regional premondimince.

*What does a Rare generalized atypical and wave discharge spike and wave discharges mean.

Does this mean I have a rare type of seizure activity?

*What is grade 3 and is 9 Hz common

*What functions and areas of the brain would be affected in the posterior head regions.

*What does fragments of discharges mean

Thanks
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[epileric]

I honestly feel you'd be best to have a doctor with years of medical training interpret your EEG. Mistakes can be made by untrained individuals & that's never good.

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[Endless]

Hi, and Welcome!

I agree with Eric. It's best to ask your doctor to interpret the EEG findings. It's complicated.

I'm really glad you found us here. There's tons of info and support. Nice people, too.

 

[Nakamova]

Hi specialneeds, welcome! As the others have said, you need to have your doc interpret the findings and here's why: There are so many variables that need to be taken into account with EEGs -- where and when particular waveforms occur, their shape and distribution, their frequencies, the background surrounding them, whether the patient is awake or asleep... And there can be both false positives and false negatives. So all that data is what needs to be taken into account, rather than individual pieces on the report.

One thing I can help with -- "Rare generalized atypical and wave discharge spike and wave discharges" doesn't mean a rare type of epilepsy. "Rare" in this case just means there weren't many of the spikes during the test period.