Been having odd things happen... Could it be a form of epilepsy?

I'm 18, and all through my childhood, I had splitting headaches, maybe once a month a blackout, and every couple of weeks I had this thing happen where all of the sudden, the sounds around me would go monotone and sort of run together, and I'd have this short shudder than would run through my body for a moment, not more than a second. I never contributed it to anything.

But here lately, I've still been having the headaches, and now, the things that happened with sounds and resulted in a shudder, instead of every once and a while, I've moved from having them start occuring from once every couple of weeks, to once every week, to now once or twice a day. And the shudder is lasting a bit longer, to the upwards of 5 seconds at times.

Having used google, I couldn't anything similar to this, though I'm not sure I looked quite hard enough.

Has anyone heard of anything similar happening with the sounds and the shudder? I'm trying to make myself have an excuse to go to the doctor over this.

jmattick,

Oh yeah, there is still something I'd like to add.

As I mentioned before, it gets worse as you age, my employer of 30 years recommended that I go off on Disability.  Well I've been off for a year so far and i have not had one petit-mal.

I guess it was the stress that was causing them from work.

Now my stress comes from my bipolar son.

Randy

So, Best of Luck in finding out what is causing those symptoms.  Don't be afraid to tell your doctor everything and to pursue it until you get answers... your doctor should run the appropriate tests.        Glenda

I was going to say- You'll need all the energy you can get, so you better eat you Wheaties.  But, now that I think of it, with your Crohn's, I guess that isn't such a good idea, is it?!   lol 

But, seriously, I hope you do ok next week.  Since the neuro appointment isn't til Friday, it will at least give you some time to think of questions to ask when you have your appointment.  Glad to hear from you today...     Glenda

EEG=Negative

MRI=Mostly negative.

Apparently, I have a small spot on the front right of my brain that could be something. The doctor is contributing it to artifacting from the MRI, but wants me to get another test done in 6 months when my insurance will pay for it again. He is not sure, as if it was artifacting, it should have shown up on all the films from that day, and I was the only one.

So, right now I am on Bellamine-S and industrial strength Naproxen, neither of which are helping. I see him in a few weeks to see how things are doing.

I am on disability for my UC and Epilepsy.

 I was fighting to keep my job and not go on disability.

I've had UC and epilepsy since 1979.

I'm from Canada and my employer of 30 yrs. has reccomended that I go on Disability (not my choice-fought against it for 4 yrs.and lost) through Sun Life Financial and it has been approved, it kicks in Feb/05. It might have been easier for me to qualify because I also have Ulcerative Colitis.

My employer has put me on medical retirement since April/04 with full salary until my disability insurance starts. The amount of my disability is 70% of my salary.

That's not so bad considering I am the main bread winner but thank god my wife works.

I agree that there are a lot of people out there that don't really need it but make up stuff so they can get benefits and not work. I'm only 48 yrs old  and I'm not dying (yet)so maybe someone will hire me part time since my UC and EP has been in control (remission) for years.

Randy