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Join Date: Jun 2011
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Posts: 242
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Visual seizure activity? (Mark look here)
For those of you who have had visual seizures...
Were they able to find out for sure using an EEG? Or was the diagnosis based on your symptoms?
If you receive a diagnosis, does this effect your ability to drive? For example, if a person just experiences symptoms like a visual flashing but is able to talk and think during a visual seizure, does this still result in loss of driving privelidges?
I've had two doctors suggest this may be happening to me and are sending me for an EEG. However, I don't know if the test will actually see activity as it happens so infrequently. My boyfriend suggested this may effect my driver's license, if I get a diagnosis. Is that the case, even if I can talk, move and think during it, I just have a visual disturbance (that does not effect my seeing the environment around me). For example, when it happen last, I was able to independently navigate my self down a flight of stairs, down a hallway and into my desk despite people walking in the hallway. I was able to talk to people around me while I waited for it to pass.
I'm so confused that this is being called "seizure activity" as I'm not physically seizing when it happens.
Any explanation would be greatly appreciated. I really don't understand this suggestion/diagnosis.
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What Happened: On 3/8/11 I was stopped waiting to merge into traffic when I was rear ended by someone doing 45 mph. I walked away from the accident, to fall into the pit of PCS 5 days later... (I have had 2 previous concussions, but neither developed into PCS.)
Symptoms 3 Years Post: Physical: migraines, infrequent vertigo, neck and back pain (from accident), tinnitus, visual field deficits in left eye, problematic light sensitivity, (including visual seizure activity), noise sensitivity, EXTREME fatigue, semi-frequent disrupted sleep cycles,
Cognitive: semi-frequent Brain fog after cognitive strain, limited bouts of impulsivity, unable to concentrate for more than short periods of time without fatigue, word finding problems, slowed processing speeds, impaired visual memory;
Emotional: easily overstimulated, depression, anxiety;
Treatment so far: Vestibular therapy; Physical Therapy; Vision Therapy; Vitamin Schedule; Limited caffeine; Medications; attempting to limit stress and overstimulation; Yoga; Cognitive Therapy
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