Seizure disorders rare
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I'm 20 years old and since I was 3 years old I've had faints/mainly seizures. The first time it happened at 3 I had a temperature. Since then I've had a seizure at least every year, apart from once when I went around 2 years without one.
Since 3 I've had seizures randomly. However have also had one whilst running (twice) one was a seizure one was a faint, when I was on a trampoline, when on a bouncy castle, whilst sat on a bus, whilst sat eating a meal.
I cannot find any answers because it is so rare..I need to know who is an athority on such matters..I find pleanty of information about it being in the reproductive organs,but not the lung..I cannot find one dr who has treated this condition ..
There is no simple, definitive test for a seizure disorder. Often, seizure disorders are diagnosed based on patient history and observation of a seizure. If your daughter had a seizure lasting 30 min., that would qualify for a diagnosis in the minds of many clinicians. I'm sure you'll follow up with the diagnosing doctors and others as necessary. I hope the seizure turns out to be a one-time event.
From what you wrote, it certainly does not sound like ALS. ALS is a degenerative neurological disease, which usually starts with people noticing they are getting clumsy, then weak. It is not a sensory problem where you experience odd sensations of being underwater or being shocked. I think that maybe this is a passing thing? especially since you got a CT scan which was negative, which would have been helpful to diagnose a host of other brain disorders.
Meaning that if an EEG is done during an attack (such as the convulsion you describe above) and the EEG shows the seizure in the brain waves, then the seizure can be confirmed. In other people, convulsions occur but these are due to stress and not true seizures coming from epileptic activity in the brain, in which case the EEG will not show epileptic activity during the convulsion.
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An epileptic cannot have both a complex partial seizure disorder and a generalized seizure disroder. People with a generalized seizure disorder are usually born with it, while people with partial or complex partial get it sometime during thier life. Generlaized seizures occurr over the entire brain, while complex partial only occurr in a section of the brain.
I have complex partial seizures that occurr in my right temporal lobe. They started from a head injury I got when I was three.
Infrequent: hemorrhoids, stomatitis, melena, gastritis, esophagitis. Rare: tongue edema.
Heart Rate and Rhythm Disorders: Infrequent: AV block.
Liver and Biliary System Disorders: Infrequent: SGPT increased, SGOT increased.
Metabolic and Nutritional Disorders: Infrequent: dehydration, hypo kalemia, alkaline phosphatase increased, hypocalcemia, hyperlipemia, hyperglycemia, xero phthalmia, diabetes mellitus.
(Currently available) antipsychotics can cause permenant movement disorder such as tardive dyskinesia. However, they must wait a period of time for withdrawl dyskineis to pass. From my knowledge atypical antipsychotics can increase the seizure threshold but this effect is generally not permanent. It would be best to see a neurologist who is a movement disorders specialist and have them do full follow up including an EEG (the specific kind to try to set off seizures) and an MRI.
, that is undiagnosed, has ever been tested for having a tapeworm? I suspect it is rare since no ID doc or other doc has mentioned this possibility, but thought I would ask as I read that it can cause some CNS symptoms. Why is this not mentioned by the ID docs?
I would definitely take her to the vet, although not necessarily to have her put down. I would let the vet examine her to see what he/she thinks the problem could be and take it from there. Seizure disorders can be managed medically, it's not necessarily the end of the line just because she had a seizure. I would, however, definitely get the vet involved.
) is persistent and non-fluctuating, things to consider include genetic sensitivity to smell, chronic sinusitis, dental infections, brain tumors, or even depression of other psychogenic disorders. Upon occasion, nasal polyps (small growths in the nose) may cause an altered sense of smell. Additionally, there are some viral etiologies such as viral hepatitis that have been documented as rare causes of both "dysosmia" (when innocuous odors smell foul) and nausea.
Conversion disorders are disorders in which the patient suffers from symptoms of diseases that he does not actually have. The symptoms of a pseudoseizure are almost same as those of an epileptic seizure, but their origin is psychological, not neurological. One of the characteristic differentiating feature of an epileptic seizure is that there is an abnormal discharge of electricity from the brain during the seizure whereas there is no such electrical discharge during a pseudoseizure.
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In adults the choice of an antiepileptic drug depends on several factors like type of seizure, associated medical disorders and use of any medications etc.Dilantin,carbamezapine,valproate can be used in temporal lobe seizures.Topamax,keppra,lamotrigine can be used as add on drugs with medications mentioned above.Dilantin doesn’t cause depression but can cause decrease in renal function,headache,dizziness,confusion,double vision etc.
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I was reffered from Frimley Park in surrey to The National Hospital London UK for CBTtherapy as a rare serious case for further treatment.Can anyone suggest a specialist who may be interested in exchanging research information on treatments for such cases?
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