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Broader Definitions of Epilepsy May Lead to Better Treatments

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Robin Tansill

3/22/2012 2:18:12 PM

 I have been diagnosed with Non-Epileptic-Psychogenic-Seizure-Disorder. Can ANYONE please tell me more about this disorder, and why it happens? I started having these after the neurosurgeon botched a spinal fusion surgery on my L3 & L4. I am in severe pain, and the only way to help me is to wear a pain pump. Please help! Thanks!

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Christina Herzog-Garcia

12/30/2011 10:08:19 PM

 Thank you so much for writing that wonderful article. Years ago I was told I had Frontal Lobe Partial Simple Seizures. A few years after that I was told I have Catamenial Epilepsy. Now I am different case because I have never blacked out or even zoned out but yet the doctors show activity on my tests. My question is that since my so called seizure episodes always happen around that time of the month and I tried taking over the counter Progesterone to help with the seizures and it seemed to make things worse, would you say that I may not have Catamenail Epilepsy?

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Heather Haller

5/26/2011 3:30:40 PM

 I would like to thank the author for her exceptionally well-written piece on the "state of the science."

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Tammy levine

5/4/2011 11:11:10 AM

 I am hoping some day that it does not matter seziures can not be found in the brain. I have epilepsy for 12 yrs now. I had sugery and was told my seziures could not be found. My seziures are mostly bad during pre-menstrual. Do you feel a hysterectomy would help me, or the shots of GABA ?