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How Can I Determine Types Of Seizures I Have
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I was born with severe prenatal brain damage at the term of the 2nd trimester preventing development of corpus callosum. To my understanding, I suffer extreme nocturnal myoclonus, daytime myoclonus, possinbly essential myoclonus and absence seizures. I also suffer essential and intention tremor. I experience extreme pain more than anything else. I have very little knowledge of when and how I seize but my daughter tells me I have several occasions during waking hours of the week.

posted August 10, 2017
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You have better chance of determining your seizures by doing an EEG.

posted August 15, 2017
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I started with grand mal and I never had any indication it was about to hit. The last couple of years it changed to nocturnal seizures. These cause more injury and pain than the grand mal and I have had numerous in the pasture with cows, caught in barb wire...

posted August 12, 2017
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We think mine started as nocturnal seizures, because I used to be a "wild sleeper"; kicking friends during sleepovers, wriggling around on the couch during naps, etc. The kicking stopped when I started my Epilepsy meds, after the Grand Mal that got me diagnosed.

The best way to find out is to talk to a neurologist, and perhaps get an EEG done.

posted August 15, 2017
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

The best thing to do is talk to a neurologist or Epileptologist and ask them for an EEG appt. they then can determine what type of Epilepsy you have and what kinds of seizures your having.

posted August 12, 2017
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

I have simple partial, complex partial & Absence. The absence have dramatically decreased from at least 4 daily to where I now have 3 at the most in a month. Some of your descriptions fit several seizures. So theres no way too know without a video EEG, CT scan or even MRI along with a nuerologists diagnosis.

posted August 11, 2017

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