Hello,
i am a 20 year old woman who has had seizures since I was about 4 years old
my docs arent sure if its from the head injury I had or if I was just born with it
all the meds I have been on have not helped it
i have had all the tests from mri eeg(sleep deprived and ambulatory)cat and so on
only 3 have shown an abnormality in my brain
why when it shows some times that it wont show other times like there is nothing there?

Why havent any med stopped them?

Are there any other things I can do to stop it?

Also, as I am sitting here right now, I have severe swollen feet and ankles, is this normal for my meds? Dilantin and trileptal?

I cant even see my ankle or feet bones and it hurts so horribly to walk
i have also been todl I have "pseudo seizures" and this term has been explained to me several different ways-one being that I fake them, another being that they are stress induced so on and so forth
as if they are not real
so my question t othem is always this- faked? As if I like having to spend more than half my life in a hosp that my own home, as if I like being stuck with needles 3 times a week to try to control this, not to mention how many times im stuck when I have to go to the hosp, as if I like having to take so many meds and then being even more sick with the side affects from them, well, you get the point
and then stress induced?--ok now this really doesnt make sense because I dont know any 3/4 year old that has that much stress in their life to start having seizures
so if all this comes down to the seizures "not being real" then why the medication for them?

Malpractice?

False abnormal results on the tests?
Make any sense to anyone out there please let me know
write me back because I need help with this
thanks a million :d