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Living Room / Re: Like a bad penny...
« on: February 25, 2022, 10:08 AM »
After letting my local neurologist know about Mayo's decision, and that my symptoms continue to get worse, he managed to squeeze me in this morning. After a nudge in the right direction from me, he agreed that it's a good idea to do an brain scan (EEG) at this point. It seems insane to me that I would have to suggest that myself, but that's the state of neurological diagnostics today apparently. The reason nobody thought to do this before is simply that it's normally only used to diagnose seizures, which I don't appear to have.
The flip side of that is that you can't always identify seizures from external symptoms. Several years ago I read about a study, at Harvard IIRC, where they were performing brain scans on a group of autistic individuals. Along the way, they discovered that one of the subjects wasn't actually on the spectrum. The scan showed regular seizures occurring in his prefrontal cortex.
The flip side of that is that you can't always identify seizures from external symptoms. Several years ago I read about a study, at Harvard IIRC, where they were performing brain scans on a group of autistic individuals. Along the way, they discovered that one of the subjects wasn't actually on the spectrum. The scan showed regular seizures occurring in his prefrontal cortex.