Hey i'm a 23 year old male and I was
diagonosed with epilepsy when I was
younger. After sometime of no epileptic
activity they started leaning me off my
depakote, and I havent had any seizure
activity since I was about 14. Now heres
my problem, lately i've been suffering
from memory loss, i'm having the hardest
time remembering everything. Its been
very rapid over the past few months. I
mean like theres just being absent minded
and this is by far much worse than that.
Its effecting my performance at work, now
heres my scenario. Say I go get a eeg
done just by looking at it they could tell
I used to have epilepsy right? Like it
would be obvious that something was out of
place? I ask because I could lose my job
if it were to turn up with a health
history. Has anyone heard of something
like this? How about dormant epilepsy
does that exist? Hopefully this isnt
leading up to something worse than just
memory loss. Maybe read any articles on
anything related? Any help or pointers
would be greatly appreciated thanks.
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kayakmom
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Posted: 11-05-05 17:48pm
There can be a lot of subtle seizures that
you might not realize you are having...
I would just talk to your regular doctor
about the memory loss. Could be a lot of
things and not just your epilepsy coming
back....
Best wishes for answers!
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HennieSnyman
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 24 Location: Arusha, Tanzania
Posted: 11-23-05 11:29am
Hi wheresmykeys.
I'm no expert but here's my shilling's
worth:
during an eeg the technician will ask you
to "close your eyes", "open your eyes",
"breath deaply" etc etc..
Afterwards, when the neuro looks at the
eeg print-out he/she should be able to
spot any unusual activity that took place
during the session.
From simply looking at your eeg report
(without knowledge of your medical
history) there is no way of knowing if the
abnormal activity was there 1 month or 1
year ago.
Your historical data is known only by you
and your neurologist.
Dunno where you're from, but usually
that's all very confidential stuff.
From just looking at an eeg report it
would be presumptious to say he/she has
had epilepsy for x amount of
months/years.
If however, you go for a cat or mri scan
it is quite normal to make certain
assumptions.
Let's say the imagery shows substantial
scarring then it would be obvious that the
scarring didn't appear overnight. Bar an
accident fo sorts. Hence the symptoms of
epilepsy could have been obvious for some
time.
But even then, it is possible that the
patient never experienced anything
strange.
