Candida

My husband has both epileptic and pseudoseizures. He had a bout of encephalitus 2 years ago, which put him in ITU for 17 days, on a life support machine etc. The encephalitus left him with epilepsy and the trauma left him with psuedo seizures. You don't have to have epileptic seizures to have pseudoseizures, but it is often the case that some people will have both. Pseudoseizures usually relate to some kind of trauma, often physical or sexual abuse as a child, which manifests itself in non-epileptic seizures at a later date, though ofcourse it must be remembered that it is not always a trauma of this kind that causes these seizures. Non-epileptic seizures are almost identical to epileptic siezures, and many epitologists, if they are honest, will tell you they find it very difficult to distinguish between the two, and would rather rely on an eeg, or a bout of telemetry if possible before they diagnose non epileptic seizures, and even then they need to be lucky enough to catch both types during that session on the eeg machine. My husband has had 15 days in all in telemetry and luckily both epileptic and non-epileptic siezures were recorded. He is lucky in the sense that the non-epileptic siezures were caught very soon after they started, but many people go for years and years being treated for epilepsy alone, as opposed to pseudosiezures also, and the longer they have been going on for, the harder they are to treat. My husband is treated with drugs for the epilepsy, which incidentally isn't working too well, and he has been treated with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for the non-epileptic seizures, which has greatly improved these attacks, but hasn't completely got rid of them. I have loads of info about all this stuff if you need to ask anything else, please feel free.
How are you doing with your seizures?
Is there anything you can think of that may have traumatised you in the past?
Kind regards
Candida.