Confused and really irritated

[scared_to_death913]

I will try and keep this as short as I can.  In May of 2010 my husband said I had had what appeared as some sort of seizure.  My family Dr. seems to always want to attribute everything to depression so he gave me antidepressants.  Then exactly a year later I was driving my car and had another episode totaling my car and my husbands both the spell happened as I was pulling in the drive way.  CT scan was normal.  I asked the dr if he thought I should be sent to a neurologist because my younger sister had epilepsy.  Again no he said it was just stress.  Then Dec 30 of last year I had another episode in the local Walmart.  Another ct scan came back normal........I asked again about the Neuro same story again.  Well back in March of this year I had a spell one morning when I came home from work.  The Dr. finally got me in to see a neurologist which I had to wait six weeks for.  I begged him to do an Mri so I would have evrything I needed when the Dr saw me.   His response was some neuros like certain machines used therefore he wouldnt order me one.  So I go for my consult with my 2 ct scans the neuro said my brain looked healthy but he started me on epileptic meds. Made a follow up appointment for June 21 I am suppose to go that day they are doing an mri and I am to take the disk from the mri directlt to his office.  So he can plop it in the computer and review it right in front of me.  Im so upset my family Dr didnt do anything sooner and didnt at least call the neuro and ask if he would accept the Mri from here.  I am 43 years old my sister started havin her seizures when she was a teenager and continued to have them up until she was found dead at the age of 33.  Apparently she had decided to stop taking her medicine.  The first 6 weeks of waiting were hell on my nerves.  I realize an MRI can pick up so much more than a ct scan.  So now I have another month of the same worrying about what they are going to find that has caused this.  My worst fear is a tumor of some sort.  The neuro started me on lamitcal so I dont know if thats making me any moodier or what.  I am considering switching family drs because my dr was careless and didnt seem to really care one way or the other.  Not to mention the fact he told me I could go ahead and drive every time it happened.  This last time I was so scared I told him I couldnt drive til this was figured out.  To me he didnt only owe me to take precautions but to the general public of which had I had another episode driving I could have killed.  Anyone have any thoughts on this or am I just making a mountain out of a mole hill?

[meesher]

Get a new primary care physician recommended by the neurologist Google "Lamictal" and read about your mood. Keppra and many other seizure meds make all of us a teensy bit on edge. You cannot prove that your original doc was irresponsible, unless you have a witness to him hearing about your sister, AND failing to proceed with reckless disregard for your safety AND the safety of others. Yes, I used to be a lawyer. And you did not get hurt in any of the car crashes. And you continue to drive, when epilepsy is a real, genetic, probability.

[meesher]

I am an epileptic. I was diagnosed just last year, on  this date. All of my prior seizures happened when I was NOT in an MRI. Seizure activity only shows up, or can be diagnosed, when the actual seizure is happening. 16 years of seizing and no one knew what was happening. We live in a small community and every time my hub found me post seizure, he called 911  and the little hospital did not have a neurologist. Finally, hub demanded that they take me to U.C. Davis, a hospital that is a teaching facility. While there, they put electrodes on my head and managed to see 300 seizures in one half of one hour. Now I take seizure meds and do not seize. But that driving business, YOU know you should not be doing it. If you kill someone, that is on YOUR conscience.

[teddybears4ever2]

Well if you don't want to drive no one can make you.  However. it does sound like something is going on with you body.  You know your body best. In addition you might also want an EEG.  
If you feel your doctor isn't listening to you, you have the right to find another one.  Telling you not to worry is not a good thing.  You deserve to find out what is going on with you body.  Keep fighting that battle, and keep us updated.