Some of the medications we use might affect Balance and
coordination, during phaseup of a new dose, as our bodies adapt to it.
That was mainly why I asked that earlier.

 Did they tell you where the EEGs were abnormal? (Only share that if
you're comfortable with it.  But several of the szr. types differ
depending on which area the szr. focus is, and therefore the type of
szr. you might have or be prone to.)
 That's probably telling you what you *already know, I realize, but
sometimes others might read these too and have similar conditions.
  This will also be interesting for others here, as your's looks like
it might be the first time where an MRI doesn't find any glitches that
may describe why there's electrical firing causing szrs., but not a
physical area that triggers it there?
  *Note, I'm not the Neuro here, so that doesn't mean (you know
already)  that other events in our body or possibly other things might
interfere still with the electrical circuitry that makes us work.  (For
example I don't know if the backaches you described would involve
spinal nerve links, that are connected in there too.  I've had some
awful backaches, usually from uncontrolled nocturnal szrs., but can see
why your boyfriend would suggest that the tingling in legs and trouble
walking could easily come from there.
   The staring spells are usually listed on http://efa.org or Julie's
Idaho site (if you see one of her posts or one I did about a week ago
that lists 4-5 www sites), as Absences or possibly Simple Partial
seizures?  Those can be entirely normal as the Depakote gets control of
anything else the Dr. is treating.   (I've never used that one, but
others here have. Hopefully they'll post and tell us *which types of
szrs. they are using it for*, as that might help you too, in
determining which type he's treating.
 You could ask them if they didn't tell you already, *or if you got a
printout from your Pharmacy with the pills, it usually says 'this
medication is used to control x,y,z types of conditions'  and might
help.   If others don't have comments in next day or 2, I found my
Pharmacist an excellent source both of information and sometimes of a
www address where I could read more detail about a particular med.

 Your Co-workers sound like a High Class bunch. Is this in a Medical
Facility where they're acting like that?  They're *Not treating people
I hope for medical condtions.  That would be like putting a Thug in
charge of a Bank.
 Depending where you live, there are workplace anti-discrimination
laws, that they should be aware of, even if they *were Yobs. Canada and
US had those in-place since I was in High School (**1960).  Perhaps
they got left behind when the Year-counter rolled over to '2' and
accidentally set their's back to 1800.
  I had that in 1980 when I had heaviest brain damage from
Encephalitis.  I dread seeing one of 2 supervisors I had back then,
showing up at our 'Retired People's Barbecues'.  I've had multiple
dreams about that, and it's not pretty but neither of them survives...
This was a large company where if you are ' 5 levels up'  you require a
basic understanding of Labour Laws and Compassion or shouldn't be
there. Neither of them had minimal skill there.   G./.

Mindy Van Wert wrote:

[snip]

Could I intervene again?

Something that helped me handle the feelings others caused was to realize that
it was *their* ignorance, *their* problems, and *their* attitude would probably
come back and continuously bite them later. Your situation is a lot less of a
problem than theirs.

As far as people who are trying to help but cause more problems (like those
"sicking sweet" idiots), a little education usually helps. After all, they are
trying to be nice. They just don't know how to go about it and you can help. Our
situation is frustrating for others too.