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Electrical Discharges on EEG - causality?

Brain & Nervous System | Last Active: Apr 19, 2020 | Replies (15)

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@flowerbloom
Good evening,
Okay, let's try this one more time.
I know an electroneurodiagnostic technologist
in London so I sent her your post and asked her if she would share her opinion. She has always written back so hopefully she will contact me.
If I were you I would skedaddle as fast as I could from your current Neuro and never look back. Did that doctor give you any kind of diagnosis or was there a diagnosis of anxiety and depression. Do you actually suffer from anxiety and/or depression.
I’m curious why this doctor didn’t seem very interested in your EEG, I wonder why they even did the EEG if they’re not interested in interpreting it. I wonder if he/s was even capable of reading it. Also there are doctors who have had additional training in interpreting EEGs. Unlike cardiology Where doctors are required to receive specialized training in the interpretation of electrocardiogram's,that’s not the case with Neurologists and the interpretation of EEGs.
If a neurologist believes a patient may have Epilepsy seizure activity when they order an MRI they should order an Epilepsy protocol MRI.
have you ever lost consciousness during any of these episodes or are you always aware of your surrounding? can you hear other people talking and comprehend what is being said, if so are you able to respond to them. Have you ever experienced any type of brain trauma? I assume you’ve never had a stroke. Do you have any heart problems.
I will post as soon as Anna gets back to me.
Hope your feeling better ,
Jake

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Thank you so much!!!!

One doctor has suspected (benign) MS based on MRI and EEG and sent me to this doctor for lumbar puncture. But as I said, I have no new spots on my brain. I have had multiple concussions during childhood without losing consciousness. Once fell straight on top of my head with 20-40km/h in primary school.(suppose, I was in the car with my legs up and fell when the driver stepped on brake)

When I get very tired(late in the day) and I‘m talking a lot, especially while trying to retrieve things from memory, I experience these memory lapses. Continuing to explain to others that i don‘t remember what I am doing and I‘m confused, fells like will overexert my brain and i wait for it to pass for 5-15 seconds. I once tried to explain to my mum why I stopped talking and I mildly mumbled my words for a few seconds like a drunk person. I don’t lose consciousness but it‘s like my mind stops thinking. I can only see and hear, that‘s all. As if you would try to not think about anything and you normally can‘t do that, but my mind does that for 5-15 seconds. I can at most tell you that I‘m unwell and confused and nothing more.

One of the problems is that I‘m a patient living in eastern europe and out state health care system is very flawed. After I had told her that psychiatric problems do not exclude other illness, and my depression is also affected by not being taken seriously, she stopped a bit and agreed to schedule me in 3 weeks for blood tests and such, but i‘ve completely lost trust in her considering what happened. I’ll go to a psychiatrist, after someone looks at my EEG for more than 5 seconds and tells me that i can cause these measurable results with my depression, and I‘ll believe that. Actually having the understanding and support of my family i‘m feeling a lot better mentally than I was feeling past days.

I‘m feeling dizzy right now when I try to recall everything. Two weeks ago I woke up trying to remember what I did a day prior and it took me 1-2 minutes to remember that I went to a shop that I love with my mom and we had fun. During the time I tried to remember I had to stop a few seconds 2 times because it triggered my dizziness. Now the dizziness is non stop with exacerbations on effort. On Christmas I was laughing, dancing and jumping with my lil cousin and I had a dizzy spell. That‘s when my symptoms weren’t so bad, only very occasional. It got progressively worse to the poin of being continuous.

My heart is healthy, i had an echography and EKG done and everything is fine. I tend to be on the lower side with blood pressure but still normal.

Thank you very much for taking the time to read this and help me.