Catamenial

[suzy401]

I went to my doctor last week and she thinks I have epilepsy.  I have been getting tingle feelings in my cheek, neck, and ear lob.  I have also in the past had weakness in arms and legs.  I get shaky, and my body just jumps.  My personnality changes.  I get mad sometimes.  I have been to the hospital before and they say it is stress.  I really do not think that is right.  I seem to have all the problems in the middle of my month or during my period.  I had like a seizure last night.  I told my boyfriend I do not feel that great.  Than a couple of minutes later my body just jumps.  I do not faint or anything.  I am just like not there.  I get so tired after one of these things.  I am in my own world all soft and out of it.  I do not remember everything after, I am all confuse.  Can someone tell me if this could be a seizure.  My doctor called it Catamenial.  I go see my Neuro this week.  thanks for the help.  Also thanks for this site.
Suzy

[CCF-Neuro-M.D.-PW]

To confirm a diagnosis of epilepsy, the best way to do this is to have an evaluation in an epilepsy monitoring unit

you would stay in the unit for a few days, hooked up to an EEG, and the episodes you are having are recorded on the EEG and video. The doctors can than answer definitevly for you whether they are epileptic or not. It is very important to do this as you do not want to be labelled as having epilepsy if you do not have epileptic seizures. There are other forms of seizures (non-epileptic seizures) that have different forms of treatment

Catamenial is just a descriptive term meaning around the time of your period, and does not specifically imply epilepsy

Good luck

[suzy401]

Thanks you for the information"  I did go to my Neuro to day.  She wants be to get a EEG away and asleep.  Something to do with the temporal lobe.  She does think I have epilepsy.  I don't know what tepporal lobe has to do with it.  But I guess I will find out.

thanks Susan