any ideas on what's happening to me?

Posted By elsa  on April 06, 1998 at 20:55:34:







hi
- over the past two years i have been checked by a number of doctors to try to discover what is causing difficulties that i have experienced most of my life but dismissed as just wierdness until they led to the loss of a job
- actual diagnosed difficulties include: ADHD, well-below average working memory, low performance scores on neuro psych, hi verbal scores on neuro psych, response latencies and weakness on right side(both muscular and sensory; eg; hearing), low attention to visual detail, left/right problems,
- my general memory is in the 99% - cool, eh?
- MRI and EEG were normal
- when i was little (infant to 5 years) I had what we now suspect were seizures, at times 3 or 4 a day, they were written off as breath holding but my mother has always thought they were seizures as they would come out of the blue for no apparent reason(meaning i wasn't upset or hurt prior to the incidents) - twice i had to be rushed to the hospital because i could not resume normal breathin
- my concern is that the right seems to be getting weaker and clumsier
- one doctor who did neuropsych testing spoke of "epilepsy spectrum disorder"
- one funny about all this is that i can write (eg: letters, essays) extremely well
- recently being checked - abdominal tenderness on let side, frequent urination, and anemia (pale, small red blood cells) - these I would expect are not connected to the above
- Any ideas on what's happening with my brain and body?
- Any questions I should be asking my doctor?
I would appreciate any help
Elsa