Finally finally diagnosed!!

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Thanks I've had 3 years so far to try to come to terms with all this but it's kinda like an emotional roller coaster I'm happy to finally have proof, but then I go and actually have my first simple partial in at least a year on a plane, and I'm getting paranoid that anytime I zone out it could be a absence, and what if the doc says I can't drive? Uhhhhhhhhggg.
 
Like Monday I was driving making a right turn looking left and kinda just drifted right into another car, I was barely moving but felt soooo stupid no one was hurt, I'm not sure if I was just in attentive or if it was an absence, Im not sure if I've ever had an absence but I do zone out sometimes and lose track of what I was talking about or doing.
 
I guess my biggest fear all this time was that I was crazy, at times I second guessed myself, and then for a year or so barely anything happened except for one strange driving experience that I had hoped was a panic attack, which now sounds like a simple partial. I've been stressed out off work for almost 4 weeks because I fell off a stage at work and hurt my back, got told I had an abnormal EEG, upped the meds, had to get a lawyer to go after my employer for screwing me around on workers comp, not paying me disability for the time off while I was hurt from the accident they caused. It's been a perfect storm for seizure activity for me, the cherry on top was the 12 hour wait at an airport and a night flying after a bad nights sleep, an airplane with a dark room and a bright ass CRT monitor
 
For years I though it was just anxiety as they told me at the hospital and never did a single test. I started having tonic clonic and bit the tongue off myself a few times. I knew something was wrong as the sensations I was feeling in the head and body were taking over me and it just was not normal as I usually a postive/happy type of person and it was interrupting my daily life because I didn't understand if I was actually sick or had some kind of tumor or what. But then I ended up in hospital and they were forced to do tests when I didn't wake up. But the journey isn't over yet and it's frustrating.
 
Oh! So anyway, the point is.... I am sooooooo happy that you have an answer now.
 
Doctors are really lazy, it seems that they don't want to help people anymore. Did you ever get a diagnosis? How r u doing now with your seizures?
 
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