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.

Smilin~I am so sorry to hear you are going threw this.I will pray for you that this is not as bad as the MDs are thinking.I hope they are WRONG!:hug:

Smilin,

You might ask your neuro for a VEP, Visual Evoked Potential. It may be included in the EEG. It tracks how your brain processes visual information and uses the EEG electrodes to track your brain's response to visual stimuli. It is a normal part of a qEEG, quantified EEG which is an EEG with extra leads that is processes with a computer program.

Have you read the link in the NeuroEndocrinology thread ?