Its the classic preconceived notion problem that engineers encounter so often. I think had I told her that to begin with we would be going down a completly different route. I think she is stuck on sleep becuase when this started that is how I described it, but now that I know the big thing that indicates a seizure is having a period of time where you cannot explain or remember what happened, I know I described my problem wrong to her initially. So when I ask my regular Neurologist about this she kind of blows me off and sticks to her guns as this being a sleep problem. Funny thing is the Hospital Chief Neurologist told me that an EEG is only 50% effective and 60% if they are lucky enough to catch you in a seizure. The Dr cracks me up though becuase she thinks she has fixed my problems becuase I no longer slump over my laptop 'sleeping!'īased upon what I have read though I am in plenty company with a normal EEG but still having silent seizures. The rest of the time I have no idea what happened other than more lost time. Now, I find myself having these masked events where Nuvigil keeps my eyes open and I look awake, but I am stuck staring at the TV or a picture on the wall and can't communicate when I am conscious and can remember but that is just a short burst of time. I couldn't remember anything though about the entire event and the call. Three hours later I was conscious and asked my wife what happened. Answered the phone for an emergency call for work, had a 1 minute disussion on the call that normally takes 15 minutes and hung up. Prior to the Nuvigil, I actually slumped over my laptop in front of her for three hours. I have all the visual and brain feelings of a normal episode, I just no longer conk out. The Dr gave me Nuvigil which keeps me from falling over my computer unconscious, but its like a mask. I do use a CPAP, but just had a sleep study and a Narcolepsy test which were negative. The wife agrees with her, but only becuase she is motivated by not having me go on Leave to have a multi-day study done. My regular Neurologist seems to think my problem is sleep, but I disagree. I have had 2 EEGs at 2 different hospitals for 20 minutes each and both are negative. I imagine you may have something similar in your future or maybe you could suggest it to your doctor. So, I get to enjoy an ambulatory EEG for 3 days in about a month. I was taking topamax and it was doing the job, and I had a normal sleep-deprived EEG (which I guess can just mean the medicine is working) but then shortly after have had different manifestations of seizures and a severe blackout that lasted several hours. Well, I really wish that some people would have answered your question because I had a similar issue (sort of).

Normal eeg vs seizure eeg