is there anyone like me?

[sonja43]

My name is Sonja, I'm a 43 yr old woman with a small cavernous hemangioma in my brain that sometimes causes seizures. The exact location of the tumor is located in the speech center of my brain on the left side. When I'm about to have a seizure I've noticed that I lose my ability to talk correctly.  In the last month I've had 2 seizures but I've noticed that I'm having difficulty talking a great deal. I tend to either not know what words to say or have difficulty saying them, as if I don't know how to pronounce them. Its very frustrating and I know I should begin with my doctor, what should I say to him to adequately express how these seizures have been happening. The last one that happened to me was this past Thursday (October 10, 2013) and it left me feeling like I was in a fog for a day and a half.

[sonja43]

thank you for your comment, everything you have said I have read on various websites listing the effects of seizures due to either epilepsy or cavernous hemangioma.  I get various diagnoses from different doctors. I know that I have a cav. hem. and my neurologist gives me that as a sole diagnoses, but the doctors at the er (been several times) always diagnose me as having epilepsy. which is confusing. I have an appointment with a new neurologist next month, but what I was wondering if anyone else out there has experienced similar speech disturbances when having a seizure.

[flipper336]

Sonja, The symptoms you listed could be a side effect of the cavernous hemangioma.

Symptoms include seizures, headache, hemorrhage or compression of surrounding brain tissue, called mass effect. Mass effect can cause weakness, numbness, double vision, visual disturbance or language difficulties.

When I first started having seizures I also felt like I was in a fog the rest of the day, but you are correct. You need to talk to your Neurologist about it.