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hi i am new to this but i have had epilepsy for 14 yrs now. for 6 months i have had shaken in hands that does not seem to be epileptic so i am going into hospital this monday for telemetry for 5 days i think this consists of being put on an eeg for 5 days! anyway about two weeks ago an ambulance was called for as my face went into spasm and my hands and body started to shake i was taken to hospital and ended up with a stroke nurse in a stroke unit being told that they thought it was a stroke! but after a cat scan and a doppler this was outruled! i was let out hospital 3 days later being told i had weakness in right leg and arm! and in hospital as my leg was dragging they gave me a stick and some physio exercises to do at home. Well two weeks later my leg still dragging and still on stick i went to doctors this morning to see if i still had to go in to hospital on monday even although this had occurred, she told me yes as that was the best place to be with neurologists! i asked her what else she thought it could be and she said she was puzzled herself! so i left doctors feeling terrible as no one seems to know what is wrong with my leg! i do not want to go to hospital and have loads more tests only to be told they still dont know. I am so fed up as my quality of life is down the pan just now and have been of work since january due to the shaken and seizures getting worse and now this, so think i will be getting the made redundant letter soon. So if anyone out there thinks thats what happened to me please let me know. Thanks for your help.
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replied July 15th, 2009
i had something similar and have been told it is a conversion disorder
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