MS and Seizures

[monotreme]

Have any of those either in limbo or those diagnosed with MS been told you are having petit mal siezures??  I have been reading that those with MS do run a higher chance of having some type of seizure disorder.  

And I mean seizures that you are aware of, as opposed to ones that neuros say you are having without you being aware of  them.

Thank you.
Elaine

[mom9335]

A friend of mine was having multiple seizures as well as walking totally unbalanced.  Put her in the hospital and couldn't come up with a dx.  Last week, after a spinal tap and MRI, she was diagnosed with MS.

[Momzilla]

OK~

I'm going out on a limb here.  Being a charter member of our Crazy Sorority, I feel a certain responsibility to live up to a certain level of decorum, but this is going to give the impression I'm a little "off my rocker."

My SECOND neuro gave me an EEG, and it showed I was having absence seizures, five every four or five minutes.  Well, I wasn't.  I have never had the staring episodes, or anything that people talk about with those kinds of seizures.  So, he decided to do a 24 hr. test.  It showed the same thing.  Abnormal electrical activity every minute.  Like I was having absence seizures every minute.  

No one has EVER told me I stare.  Furthermore, he said it was extremely rare for an adult to have absence seizures, or perhaps he said adult onset was rare for adults.  He was puzzled.  He said it COULD be some kind of SCARRING that just wasn't showing up on MRI yet.  (Interesting)  

I do believe I did have some kind of seizure a couple of years ago.  It started in the back of my head, I had a kind of "jolt" of electricity, it felt like, and I had an aura, and pro-drome.  My last neuro said it was some kind of migraine.  I don't know if I buy it.  My PCP thinks it definitely was a seizure, and I didn't drive for 6 months.  I had a couple of them, and they subsided when I got up to a certain dose of anti-seizure medication, which is also used for migraines.  (Boy, I do sound nuts, don't I?)

Anyway, I have had about 3 EEGs since then, and they have all been completely ...........
You guessed it: NORMAL.  So....Maybe it's just me.  

Why do you ask, may I ask?

Zilla*

[essdipity]

Hi, Elaine. I personally know nothing about seizures, but I do know that Quix has said that MSers fairly often have abnormal EEGs, but do not have actual seizure disorders any more frequently than the general population.

ess