Diagnosis
I got out of hospital not a moment too soon. I had been there about 2 weeks. I was bored siting and lying on a bed almost the whole day. There were not many people to talk to, except the nurse and the visitors who came by during the weekends and at night, when I was most probably asleep. While there were one or two patients with 'interesting' characteristics in the same ward which amused me at times, I wasn't the effable type and kept to myself.
I was diagnosed as suffering from idiopathic epilepsy. That doesn't say much because idiopathic means that it is an epilepsy with no known cause. I was right. The EEG didn't tell much, and I didn't suffer another attack while in hospital, so there was really nothing that could be done at that stage. I was discharged and given some medicine.
The medicine turned out to be phenobarbital - which supposedly controlled epilepsy. It was the beginning of my experience and experimentation with anti-epileptic drugs.
Comments
I came across your blog through google. I was looking for personal stories from epilepsy patients, I would love to read anything you have to write about your experiences especially about how you cope with the disorder, medications and side effects, and what family and friends can do to to help..
I think the doctors took a fluid sample from your spine to rule out meningitis, because (I was reading a few minutes ago) that it causes seizures.