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Posted 4/30/2018 2:32 AM (GMT 0)
Hello not sure if anyone has experienced my issue. When I was 37 weeks pregnant I had a seizure while sleeping and thank God my husband caught it woke up on a stretcher being wheeled to an ambulance. So after having my baby they gave me an EEG and it came back normal but the doctor told me she wanted to give me a sleep eeg 3 months later. So I took the sleep EEG and some activity was noticed on the right side of my brain am scared as ever. Because I was only given Lamotrigine and everything was not properly explained to me. So I went out last week was tired thank goodness I was not the one driving and like 20 minutes of my outing I did not remember a thing like a complete blurry vision and that's it. Very scary. someone please help me out
Posted 4/30/2018 12:48 PM (GMT 0)
I would contact my dr & let him/her know what happened. I also suggest when going to see drs to make a list of questions to ask the dr. Often once we get in with the dr we forget to ask some things. While not much was explained to you, advocate for yourself & ask for explanations. Drs now a days tend to not go into much detail with patients, so it's up to us to get our answers. If you are not comfortable with the specialist you can always ask to be referred to another one.

Take care.
Posted 4/30/2018 9:49 PM (GMT 0)
I already contacted her this morning and my findings are interesting seems psychiatric problems can actually be neurological
Posted 9/10/2018 3:01 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Madamzee. I realize your posts are a couple of months old now, but I just read them and wanted to let you know that yes, someone else has had a similar experience. My wife has had epilepsy since she was a child (onset ~12 years old). She managed to become seizure free (and med free) for about four years after using EEG neurofeedback in conjunction with a diet restricting simple carbohydrates. It was a glorious time.

However, her seizures returned after delivering our first child. She didn't have any seizures during the pregnancy - they started again after delivery. But subsequent pregnancy with child #2 her seizures got really, really bad. Nothing could control them.

The hormone changes involved with pregnancy can cause issues with the seizure threshold.

Hope you are doing better today!
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