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TBI / seizures

I was hit twice my last tour of duty ( both closed head wounds) and am now suffering from chronic headaches,  around my eye ( temporal areas) twitch often and feel like worms in there at the worst along with a bad headache, I see visual distortions like little pixels fluttering in my field of view. The twitches and tingles in my head bother me, my headaches never go away it feel as if some is trying to scoop my brain out. My Nueropysh doc says I have some cognitive disorders. And I am look in ginto getting a C5-C6 vertabrea replaced and pinned,  Not for my nrck they got me on500mg Depakote x1, Topamax50mgx2, Nuerontin100mgx3, Klonopin 2mgx2, and Zoloft100mg x1 day. Is it just me or is it a bunch of meds and they are slowing me down. Are the twitches and tingles in my around my temples and down my neck really siezures, I have asked, and have asked to ttake a EEG test but they wont let me. They just want me to pop more pills till im gone. My Catscan and MRI showed nothing significant, he said i had "a almost normal brian" whats that mean. the klonopins been helping with the shakes but its slowing me way down and makes me dizzy hard to do anything, I still get the lil shakes in the side of my face but ittybity hardly noticable
If you got any clue what i could do i would appreciate it, im in the process of retireing but think they are screwing me cause some of this isnt on there. Anyway would appreciate your thoughts on the matter. Captain
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What makes a seizure a seizure? I have un controlable trembles / shakes in my temples around my lower eye. When they get bad they radiate down my neck into my left arm and hand. I also have visual disturbances, like pixels, or fluttery things in my view that diappear on there own ( ussually very brief ) These bother me alot and my nuero doc says forget about but he get paid by the GOVT. All was caused by head trauma in IED attack on more than one occasion in 2006
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Hello Dear,
Symptoms of mild TBI include headache, confusion, lightheadedness, dizziness, blurred vision or tired eyes, ringing in the ears, bad taste in the mouth, fatigue or lethargy, a change in sleep patterns, behavioral or mood changes, and trouble with memory, concentration, attention, or thinking.  A person with a moderate or severe TBI may show these same symptoms, but may also have a headache that gets worse or does not go away, repeated vomiting or nausea, convulsions or seizures, an inability to awaken from sleep, dilation of one or both pupils of the eyes, slurred speech, weakness or numbness in the extremities, loss of coordination, and increased confusion, restlessness, or agitation.You should go in for physiotherapy and continue with the medications.You can try lyrica .Also these symptoms could be due to degenerative cervical changes for which you should try conservative treatment.These symptoms are neurological in nature but  are not seizures.
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