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Old 11-07-2006, 07:17 PM
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Hi Garney,
Welcome to the forum. I'm no Dr. but it sounds like you may be having simple partial seizures where you feel funning that lead into a complex partial seizure or a petit mal (absence) seizure. This happens to me a lot.
I start to get a funny feeling in my stomach like butterflys, then I look around the room but I'm not sure where I'm at during this time I'm totally conscious then all of the sudden I will blank out and if I'm talking to someone I will no longer speak that's when I am having a complex partial seizure.
My neurosurgeon and Epileptologist(Dr. specializing in epilepsy) did many tests on me and they found a scar on the right temporal lobe of my brain. I had surgery done to help reduce my seizures where they used ultrasound and it destroyed 75% of the scar tissue but the rest of it they couldn't get because it was to deep in the brain and I could have lost my sight.
My advice to you is to get a calendar and write down what time you have a seizure along with a discription of the seizure. By doing this your Dr. may be able to see a pattern as to what time of the day or what days of the month you are more likely to have any seizures.
Stay away from anything with nutra sweet (aspartame) ex. diet soda because it's been proven that nutra sweet causes more electrical activity in the brain which can trigger seizures for some people. Also try taking vitamin B12 once a day it has done wonders for me cutting back on the seizures.
Here's a couple of web pages if your interested

www.epilepsy.com
http://www.neuropat.dote.hu/neurology.htm
When the main page comes up click on epilepsy or do a search.

Here's wishing you well and May God Bless You!

Sue
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