Has anyone been diagnosed with both epilepsy and narcolepsy?
Epilepsy And Possible Narcolepsy
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, Mar 31 2012 09:29 PM
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Posted 31 March 2012 - 09:29 PM
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Posted 04 April 2012 - 03:36 PM
Has anyone been diagnosed with both epilepsy and narcolepsy?
Are you sure it's epileptic seizures and not cataplexy? Some doctors have no experience with cataplexy and confuse it with epilepsy...
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Posted 05 April 2012 - 12:10 AM
Well in the with the eeg she said that I had brain activity on the right lobe that were consistent with epilepsy but then again..........Are you sure it's epileptic seizures and not cataplexy? Some doctors have no experience with cataplexy and confuse it with epilepsy...
They don't know much of N anyways............if only there was a cure.......
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Posted 03 May 2012 - 10:25 PM
My neurologist specializes in dually diagnosed sleep disorders- N and epilepsy or parkinson's. His name is Dr. Samuel Potolicchio and he's at GW in DC.
Well in the with the eeg she said that I had brain activity on the right lobe that were consistent with epilepsy but then again..........
They don't know much of N anyways............if only there was a cure.......
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Posted 11 May 2012 - 09:07 AM
My neurologist specializes in dually diagnosed sleep disorders- N and epilepsy or parkinson's. His name is Dr. Samuel Potolicchio and he's at GW in DC.
Thank you...though its too far for me to travel there.
