Re: [epilepsy] Sleep Study

 

Hi Kathy,
Basically a sleep study is to try and find out where exactly the seizures are coming from in your brain. In order to do so, they have to induce a seizure...one way is to keep you off your meds, another is to put a strobe light in front of you during the EEG. They may have you stay up all night before the test...but even doing all of that, sometimes a seizure doesn't happen.

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Kathy <haleasdollclothes@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Can anyone tell me exactly what goes on during a sleep study? I'm nervous for
>the following reasons:
>
>They want me to go off my medicine for 24-48 hours. If I'm off my medicine for
>24 hours, I get a focal motor seizure. I don't black out, but it's still very
>unpleasant, and I still run the risk of getting a very bad seizure. There is
>no way to get Depakote into my system fast and I don't want to take the chance
>of technicians not being able to stop a seizure fast.
>
>One of my doctors told me I could do the test without going off my medicine; the
>center said I have to go off it.
>
>
>Kathy
>
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