Why would anyone fake a seizure? They told me for years that I was faking them. Juat because no seizure activity showed up on the EEG's, they refused to believe I had them. They would not believe family or anyone who witnessed me. Yea, I really liked having no driver's license (14 yrs), losing alot of friends because of the stigma, having them in public and losing control of my bodily functions and almost dieing a few times (4) because of statis epilepticus. Just cuz it doesn't show up on an eeg doesn't mean you don't have them. One doctor insisted it needed to be on an EEG, so he told me he was going to infuce a seizure w/a grug, while hooked up to an EEG.After about 15 min, he said it wasn't going to happen and gave me another shot of valium in case I started after they disconnected me. I later found out that the med he gave me to induce a seizure was SALINE solution. He wanted to prove I was making myself take them. Just because you didn't have a seizure during or right before an EEG, don't mean squat. I later saw another doctor, and they monitored me in a room, hooked up and w/a video camera all the while reducing my meds.It took 2 days and they captured a whole bunch of them, of many varieties, pinpointed that they were coming from the scar tissue, that no one doubted, I had surgery and although I'm not seizure free, 1 noctural seizure every 2 weeks is a whole lot better than 1 or 2 grand mals a week and about 4 - 8 smaller types a day.
