new here and need info EEG in the morning - Epilepsy Message Board

kelly64 · 04-30-2008, 12:53 PM

I am going for a my 1st EEG in the morning after no sleep for 24hrs

I was in a car crash in 05 and been having black outs and full body spasms
they got so bad I would fall from them, my Q is will the EEG pick this up?
I found that stress /pain and the cold can bring them on, just me going to the store and talking with someone will make me go in to them, not fun,
and in my sleep sometimes I am not all the way under and I can not move and hear things its like being frozen, then it feels as someone is jumping on my bed I know I try and come out of it and know when I do I can tell you what I hear on the TV in the next room, (if its on) so I know I am awake but cant move , and my eye site is getting worse, went and had my eyes check and seen a red tint, I told the eye Dr and he said something to me about TBI,
what is all of this?

please any info would help,

thank you
kelly

life_is_good · 04-30-2008, 02:33 PM

TBI is traumatic brain injury. If you do a search, you can get all sorts of info on it. A 24 hour EEG should give a pretty good idea of what's going on. It's hard staying up all night, I've had several of these tests. If you have long hair, you may want to bring a scrunchie.

The importance of staying up all night is to put your body under stress and fatigue. This is when you are most apt to have a seizure. They'll flash some lights and make you hyperventilate, even allow you to fall asleep during the EEG to get different recordings. There could be seizure activity showing up on the EEG and you may not even feel a thing. But not everyone with epilepsy has abnormal EEGs.

Hope this helps.

kelly64 · 04-30-2008, 03:55 PM

yes thank you, but do they sound like seizure ? I know all of this started slowey after my car crash, and its been getting worse! my hole family has see a chang in me, and not a good one, I to the point to where I am home bond and will not let anyone in, in fear of them seeing this chang in me, this is really freeking me out,

thank you again for your help
kelly

life_is_good · 04-30-2008, 04:53 PM

If they're true seizures, they'll most likely show up. If they're pseudoseizures, I do not think that they will record on an EEG and then it would be more of an anxiety thing. Whatever is causing these episodes must be very frightening and I hope they can figure it all out.

Good luck staying up tonight! Let me know how it goes.

soccerschmee14 · 04-30-2008, 08:46 PM

you could very well be having szs. hopefully the eeg will be helpful, but like the above poster said even if it is normal that doesnt mean you dont have e. some ppl have to be having szs at the time for the eeg to be abnormal. and also i just wanted to comment on what you said about how you feel "frozen" sometimes when you sleep. it sounds kind of like sleep paralysis to me. i have had that happen to me a couple of times and it is very scary. i will wake up from sleeping and not be able to move at all. i dont know if that is what your experiencing at all but i thought i would just throw it out there. good luck with the eeg.