i would not worry cause i have both condition and they can live
normal lives i work I take tomax I have parical comax seizures and
grandmal seizures and also it works well on headaches I take it
workes well for both the medication has been out a year not sure of
the spelling through but your doctor should know Mary

--- In migraineswithepilepsy@yahoogroups.com, "Leigh Ann Smith"
<timely@g...> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I posted this same message on epilepsychat, so if you already read
it there, please just press "delete". :-)
>
> I wonder if you all could help me with knowing the right questions
> to ask of our neurologist.
>
> My 17 year old daughter has had "episodes" since she was 11 or 12.
> Typically, she would say that she felt "weird" and that one hand
and
> arm were tingling. She would go to bed and sleep for 2-3 hours and
> would feel fine when she woke up. This only happened once or twice
> a year.
>
> When she was 14, she had similar episode, except that she saw
> lights, too. I took her to the doctor that time, and the doctor
> said she was probably suffering from migraines. She did not have a
> headache. I did read however, that sometimes younger people would
> get the aura of migraine without the headache actually developing.
>
> Over the next couple of years she had two incidents where, shortly
> after arising in the morning, she felt like her abdominal
> organs "dropped", then her vision started to get dark around the
> edges and she thought she would pass out. She sat down until that
> feeling passed. Thinking this was related to the migraines, I gave
> her Excedrin and put her to bed. A few hours later, she awoke
> feeling fine.
>
> Once or twice a year, she seems to have a true migraine, where the
> aura is followed by a classic migraine headache on one side of her
> head, and she is bothered by lights and sounds.
>
> Recently, she has been having trouble whenever she runs. She
> feels "out of touch" afterwards and sometimes sees lights. She
> hasn't developed a headache after running...just the aura.
>
> Earlier this month, she had a headache that lasted a week and a
half
> and was having some visual symptoms. She said that at times she
> couldn't hold her eyes on one spot; it was as if her eyes had to
> move away. I took her to the pediatrician, who sent her for an EEG.
>
> The EEG was abnormal. The report said there was "epileptiform
> activity in the left parietal lobe" with "sharp spikes".
>
> Last week I took her to the neurologist for an evaluation, and he
> said that most likely her symptoms were due to migraine. He said
> that 15% of the population has abnormal EEGs.
>
> What do you think? Have you heard this before (about lots of people
> having abnormal EEGs)? Can migraines cause abnormal EEGs? Should I
> insist on some kind of brain scan? Should I not worry about the
> actual diagnosis since it isn't a really big problem at this time?
> Everything I have read about epilepsy seems to talk about seizures
> in the temporal lobe. Does the fact that hers are in the parietal
> lobe mean anything?
>
> Thanks for any insights you can share!
>
> Leigh
>
>
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