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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Epilepsy / July 2004My wife
Hi My wife is 56 years old and lately she started to have petite mal seizures. Usually 1 a week. Her aura usually involved a strong , sweet, sickly smell followed by general weakness. The whole event lasted only 2-3 minutes. About 3 weeks ago they started to involve convulsions. She would experience general muscle weakness but she was always conscious throughout and they lasted 5-8 minutes. Her Doctor perscibed Tergratol and now she is on Dilantin because of a reaction. She is now in the hospital and under going lots of tests. Her MRI was normal, her CAT scan was normal and we are waiting for the EEG results. An examining Nurologist suggested that her seizures were a-typical and were possibily non-epilepic. Is there anyone with experience with this kind of seizure? Are there any recommended links or sources of information? Thanks Mike > Hi > My wife is 56 years old and lately she started to have petite mal [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > perscibed Tergratol and now she is on Dilantin because of a reaction. > She is now in the hospital and under going lots of tests. Hi Mike Sorry to hear about your wife's situation. > Her MRI was > normal, her CAT scan was normal and we are waiting for the EEG > results. It's very common to have a clean CAT & MRI. That means, as you've probably been told, that there is no brain tumor or scar tissue on the brain that would be causing seizures. The EEG is somewhat dependent. on what was going on at the time and won't show anything if there was no seizure activity at the time that the EEG was taken.. > An examining Nurologist suggested that her seizures were > a-typical and were possibily non-epilepic. Is there anyone with > experience with this kind of seizure? Are there any recommended links > or sources of information? Thanks > Mike That sound like you're saying you would like info about non-epileptic seizures. There's some at: <http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/answerplace/Medical/seizures/types/nonepilepti c/weinonepilepsy.cfm> For other information on epilepsy, take a look at: The Epilepsy Foundation http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/ Epilepsy.com http://www.epilepsy.com/ Epilepsy Foundation of Idaho http://www.epilepsyidaho.org/ and many more. Keep your chin up! Bob > > Hi > > My wife is 56 years old and lately she started to have petite mal [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > going on at the time and won't show anything if there was no seizure > activity at the time that the EEG was taken.. I just wanted to point out that the EEG can show abnormal brain activity and responses which may be associated with epilepsy even when no seizures are occurring (i.e. interictal). Here's a nice general description of EEG I found.... http://www.ebme.co.uk/arts/eeg.htm > "Bob" <spsandlostinthe@invalid.net> wrote in message > <snip> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > http://www.ebme.co.uk/arts/eeg.htm This is true, but I was only trying to keep the response simple, uncomplicated, and not too technical. Let me point out that, depending on who is talking, there is a difference between "seizure activity" and an actual seizure. :-) Bob > It's very common to have a clean CAT & MRI. That means, as you've > probably been told, that there is no brain tumor or scar tissue on the > brain that would be causing seizures. The EEG is somewhat dependent. > on what was going on at the time and won't show anything if there was > no seizure activity at the time that the EEG was taken.. I had negative results on both. An EEG showed abnormal patterns. Sometimes I wish they did find something. But I was told that much of the time, finding something usually means bad news. > An examining Nurologist suggested that her seizures were > a-typical and were possibily non-epilepic. Is there anyone with > experience with this kind of seizure? Are there any recommended links > or sources of information? Hi Mike, welcome to our newsgroup. This question was just raised recently within our group. I did a search on the Epilepsy Foundation site and came up with the same info. that Bob has already given as a link. We now have that information posted on the Epilepsy Foundation of Idaho site. The Executive Director of Epilepsy Foundation of Idaho said it was one of the best descriptions he had seen. So, for the same info. on the Idaho site, we have it listed at http://www.epilepsyidaho.org/nonepileptic.htm Hope the doctors can help your wife, whatever the situation, your loving compassion will go along way to help her cope. Take care, Julie Walton, Volunteer Webmaster Epilepsy Foundation of Idaho http://www.epilepsyidaho.org http://hsc.usf.edu/~sbenbadi/PNES_CCF.html > Hi > My wife is 56 years old and lately she started to have petite mal [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > or sources of information? Thanks > Mike |
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