Seizure or Something else?

[tyapie04]

I am a healthy 35 year old female.  I collapsed on saturday and blacked out.  no recollection of the collapse until I woke up in the ambulance.  I was very distraught.  I kept asking what happened to me.  I was told I had a seizure.  They were taking me to ER to run tests to find out why.  The ER tests were normal.  I saw my regular doc on Monday.  She hesitated to call it a seizure.  I'm being sent to do an EEG then to a neurologist.  If those two options don't yield any results, then they will chalk it up to a one-time event.  Ever happen to anyone?  It's scary to think they may never know why and they'll never know if it would happen again??

[robw13]

Hi,

Same thing happened to me but I was driving with my girlfriend and she had to wreck the car to get us to stop because my foot was lock onto the gas pedal.  My car was stick and she doesn't drive stick, anyway, I had too all the test ran and my Neuro said it might have been a 1 time Seizure or Not? IDK...  The EEG was Abnormal but everything else was normal including a sleep deprivation EEG and he also told me I could Drive for 6 Months But he might release me next month since I haven't had anything go wrong "knock on wood".  I was on Keppra at 1st, but due to side effects he then put me on Topamax which is alot better in my opinion.  Hope this helps.

Robert  

[tyapie04]

I am on Effexor xr 150 mg.  I have been under a tremendous amount of stress lately.  Plus, the day it happened, I had two alcoholic beverages a few hours before this happened.  My doc tells me it was probably a combination of all that.  She doesn't believe it's seizures.  She believes it was a one-time thing.  My husband is so worried though.  

[Mag07]

Are you taking any kind of medication? Are you stressed about anything or not getting proper sleep? This happened to me years ago due to a medication and stress. Yet apparently doctors tell me I am not epileptic after running tests. I am sure your neurologist will cover this with you. :)

Mag07