Garney - My seizures started in 1990 when I was 46
A CT showed something appearing to be a mass in my left temporal lobe but the follow-up MRI was misread as "perfectly clear" so I was diagnosed with idiopathic epilepsy.

An MRI in July 2005 showed a brain tumor and we managed to retreive the old MRI and the tumor was perfectly clear on the old one too.

VEEG, PET, many more MRIs and that sort of thing showed that my seizures were caused by the tumor and it (with a bit of my hippocampus) was removed Feb. 14, 2006.

I did not have another seizure - not a single one - until last Friday.

The reason I wrote this long thing is because I think it's SO VERY important that you have those "white spots" on your MRI expained and then explained by a second opinion .... then a third opinion. But no one have ever accused me of being smart ~sigh~