My girlfriend has these spells that started at age 8. She has had very few small up untill a year ago. She had a big one last year and a few since then. In the past two months, she has had them very frequently, up to three times a week. Her spells start out by a weird feeling she has, followed by a rapid heartbeat, then she starts a seizure-like shaking and she can't breath most of the time. She has had EEGs, MRIs, bloodwork, and some other tests. The doctors cannot come up with anything. She had taken some type of seizure medication which seemed to handicap the spells. Can anyone help her figure out what this is?

Is she by chance having anxiety attacks?

Marie

What other tests were done? What type of blood test was it? What type of EEG test was it? QEEG? Has she considered PET and/ or FMRI scans?

When/ where do her "spells" most often occur?



[This message has been edited by Iloveseung (edited 03-08-2003).]

I dunno, I have similar things happen.
Still looking. They find many things that seem to effect layer by layer.
Here's some of the stuff they have found so far
Hormone imbalance
cysts on the ovarys
hyperactive pancreas
hyperactive heart beat
colon problems
lack of good pain management for old injuries
various female problems
I get different medications for a lot of different things and I have quit having to go to the Emergency Room for episodes.
That much is an improvement.
Seeing a Neurologist this week.

Sounds like an anxiety attck to me. I have complicated Migraines and when I get really bad it causes me to have panic attacks which mimic seizures at times I shake really bad...Maybe she should get her doc to try Ativan. It helped me..Best wishes..Cajun Gal

They found out what she has. It is called neurocardiogenic syncope(sink-o-pee). It also causes her to have seizures. Her heart rate doesn't slow down after racing while standing after sitting a while, like most everybody else. One system of your body speeds up the heart to pump blood to the head, the other slows it down. Well, her system that slows it down isn't always on track, and therefor causes the syncope, which cause her to seize, or in a few cases, pass out.

Originally posted by kat721:
I dunno, I have similar things happen.
Still looking. They find many things that seem to effect layer by layer.
Here's some of the stuff they have found so far
Hormone imbalance
cysts on the ovarys
hyperactive pancreas
hyperactive heart beat
colon problems
lack of good pain management for old injuries
various female problems
I get different medications for a lot of different things and I have quit having to go to the Emergency Room for episodes.
That much is an improvement.
Seeing a Neurologist this week.

hello im a 33 year old female with anxiety disoder so they say!! but i hav been going through some weird things like not talking right and twitching and can't focus and so on. what is wrong with me am im going crazy please help me!!!

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Originally posted by kat721:
I dunno, I have similar things happen.
Still looking. They find many things that seem to effect layer by layer.
Here's some of the stuff they have found so far
Hormone imbalance
cysts on the ovarys
hyperactive pancreas
hyperactive heart beat
colon problems
lack of good pain management for old injuries
various female problems
I get different medications for a lot of different things and I have quit having to go to the Emergency Room for episodes.
That much is an improvement.
Seeing a Neurologist this week.