Hi, I am hoping someone can help me. I am
34 and was diagnoised w/ epilepsy 2 yrs
ago. I woke up with a pain in my neck
(pinched nerve) it was so severe it caused
me to feel like I was going to throw up.
I was sweaty and before I could make it to
the bathroom I fainted. My husband called
911. I came to soon but was taken to the
er to get checked. Mri was fine and so
was ct scan. They did an eeg and it came
back abnormal. So, my dr diagnoised me
with epilepsy. She said if I was seizure
free for two years I could come off the
meds. Well, I have been and she still
said no since the eeg came back abnormal
again. There have been no other
"seizures" in two years and to top it off
I am on trileptal and only take 450mg a
day. I want to have a baby and the
perinatologist(spelling?!) said he did not
think I needed to be on the meds since the
dosage was so low that if I was having
seizures the meds would not stop them.
Does any one know about the dosage of
trileptal or can give me any feedback
about having an abnormal eeg but not have
epilepsy? I thought it was odd to have
one "episode" and be diagnoised with
epilepsy. The other dr said that eeg's
are subjective and you can get two
different readings from two different
dr's. What do you all think?
