Seizure - part 2
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So, Tuesday night I had an EEG and an MRI because of the seizure that I had. The EEG was a pleasant experience, very low key and quite, but the MRI, holly cow... LOUD! I was very surprised about the noise, and the close quarters of the machine. I am not really huge, but I barely fit. And I am not sure how anyone that has the slightest bit of claustrophobia deals with the close space and the noise. Less than 24 hours latter however I got the call that no one ever wants to get. Something was seen on the left side of my brain that makes them want to take a serious look and I was asked to come back and meet with a Neuro-oncologist, and I have been put on anti-seizure medication. Holly crap folks. :omg: :wtf: :omg: Sorry to use this as a place to vent, but... Maybe I should just go vent my fears over on my own blog hugh...
Damn - that sounds bad. I hope that it turns out to be something simple/easily cured.
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So, Tuesday night I had an EEG and an MRI because of the seizure that I had. The EEG was a pleasant experience, very low key and quite, but the MRI, holly cow... LOUD! I was very surprised about the noise, and the close quarters of the machine. I am not really huge, but I barely fit. And I am not sure how anyone that has the slightest bit of claustrophobia deals with the close space and the noise. Less than 24 hours latter however I got the call that no one ever wants to get. Something was seen on the left side of my brain that makes them want to take a serious look and I was asked to come back and meet with a Neuro-oncologist, and I have been put on anti-seizure medication. Holly crap folks. :omg: :wtf: :omg: Sorry to use this as a place to vent, but... Maybe I should just go vent my fears over on my own blog hugh...
Better that they found something, and hopefully they found it early. Keep us up to date - we'll be thinking of you.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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So, Tuesday night I had an EEG and an MRI because of the seizure that I had. The EEG was a pleasant experience, very low key and quite, but the MRI, holly cow... LOUD! I was very surprised about the noise, and the close quarters of the machine. I am not really huge, but I barely fit. And I am not sure how anyone that has the slightest bit of claustrophobia deals with the close space and the noise. Less than 24 hours latter however I got the call that no one ever wants to get. Something was seen on the left side of my brain that makes them want to take a serious look and I was asked to come back and meet with a Neuro-oncologist, and I have been put on anti-seizure medication. Holly crap folks. :omg: :wtf: :omg: Sorry to use this as a place to vent, but... Maybe I should just go vent my fears over on my own blog hugh...
I once had similary scary news, but the condition turned out to be something completely benign. Hopefully you have similar luck or, if it so happens to not be something benign, hopefully you've caught it early (in which case, I guess seizures are good for something).
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So, Tuesday night I had an EEG and an MRI because of the seizure that I had. The EEG was a pleasant experience, very low key and quite, but the MRI, holly cow... LOUD! I was very surprised about the noise, and the close quarters of the machine. I am not really huge, but I barely fit. And I am not sure how anyone that has the slightest bit of claustrophobia deals with the close space and the noise. Less than 24 hours latter however I got the call that no one ever wants to get. Something was seen on the left side of my brain that makes them want to take a serious look and I was asked to come back and meet with a Neuro-oncologist, and I have been put on anti-seizure medication. Holly crap folks. :omg: :wtf: :omg: Sorry to use this as a place to vent, but... Maybe I should just go vent my fears over on my own blog hugh...
Sorry to hear this man. My cousin had something similar a few years ago (he had a seizure too, and the scan revealed something like yours did) - turned out to be blood clot in his brain. They did a surgery and he's completely back to normal now. The surgery was non-trivial (it was the brain after all) but recovery time was just a few weeks, and I believe he was back to work in a month, and resumed drinking soon after. Of course your case may be completely different. Best wishes.
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So, Tuesday night I had an EEG and an MRI because of the seizure that I had. The EEG was a pleasant experience, very low key and quite, but the MRI, holly cow... LOUD! I was very surprised about the noise, and the close quarters of the machine. I am not really huge, but I barely fit. And I am not sure how anyone that has the slightest bit of claustrophobia deals with the close space and the noise. Less than 24 hours latter however I got the call that no one ever wants to get. Something was seen on the left side of my brain that makes them want to take a serious look and I was asked to come back and meet with a Neuro-oncologist, and I have been put on anti-seizure medication. Holly crap folks. :omg: :wtf: :omg: Sorry to use this as a place to vent, but... Maybe I should just go vent my fears over on my own blog hugh...
I hope it is something easily cured.
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So, Tuesday night I had an EEG and an MRI because of the seizure that I had. The EEG was a pleasant experience, very low key and quite, but the MRI, holly cow... LOUD! I was very surprised about the noise, and the close quarters of the machine. I am not really huge, but I barely fit. And I am not sure how anyone that has the slightest bit of claustrophobia deals with the close space and the noise. Less than 24 hours latter however I got the call that no one ever wants to get. Something was seen on the left side of my brain that makes them want to take a serious look and I was asked to come back and meet with a Neuro-oncologist, and I have been put on anti-seizure medication. Holly crap folks. :omg: :wtf: :omg: Sorry to use this as a place to vent, but... Maybe I should just go vent my fears over on my own blog hugh...
Gosh. That's gotta be quite a life-shaking bit of news. Let's hope it's something the medical folks can take care of. Let us know what comes of it.
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So, Tuesday night I had an EEG and an MRI because of the seizure that I had. The EEG was a pleasant experience, very low key and quite, but the MRI, holly cow... LOUD! I was very surprised about the noise, and the close quarters of the machine. I am not really huge, but I barely fit. And I am not sure how anyone that has the slightest bit of claustrophobia deals with the close space and the noise. Less than 24 hours latter however I got the call that no one ever wants to get. Something was seen on the left side of my brain that makes them want to take a serious look and I was asked to come back and meet with a Neuro-oncologist, and I have been put on anti-seizure medication. Holly crap folks. :omg: :wtf: :omg: Sorry to use this as a place to vent, but... Maybe I should just go vent my fears over on my own blog hugh...
Sorry to hear that, hope they can cure it easily.
Ray Cassick wrote:
Sorry to use this as a place to vent, but...
That's what the lounge is for.
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So, Tuesday night I had an EEG and an MRI because of the seizure that I had. The EEG was a pleasant experience, very low key and quite, but the MRI, holly cow... LOUD! I was very surprised about the noise, and the close quarters of the machine. I am not really huge, but I barely fit. And I am not sure how anyone that has the slightest bit of claustrophobia deals with the close space and the noise. Less than 24 hours latter however I got the call that no one ever wants to get. Something was seen on the left side of my brain that makes them want to take a serious look and I was asked to come back and meet with a Neuro-oncologist, and I have been put on anti-seizure medication. Holly crap folks. :omg: :wtf: :omg: Sorry to use this as a place to vent, but... Maybe I should just go vent my fears over on my own blog hugh...
Best wishes, may God bless you...
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So, Tuesday night I had an EEG and an MRI because of the seizure that I had. The EEG was a pleasant experience, very low key and quite, but the MRI, holly cow... LOUD! I was very surprised about the noise, and the close quarters of the machine. I am not really huge, but I barely fit. And I am not sure how anyone that has the slightest bit of claustrophobia deals with the close space and the noise. Less than 24 hours latter however I got the call that no one ever wants to get. Something was seen on the left side of my brain that makes them want to take a serious look and I was asked to come back and meet with a Neuro-oncologist, and I have been put on anti-seizure medication. Holly crap folks. :omg: :wtf: :omg: Sorry to use this as a place to vent, but... Maybe I should just go vent my fears over on my own blog hugh...
Sorry to hear that, hope they can cure it easily.
Ray Cassick wrote:
Sorry to use this as a place to vent, but...
That's what the lounge is for.
modified on Thursday, October 8, 2009 3:53 AM
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So, Tuesday night I had an EEG and an MRI because of the seizure that I had. The EEG was a pleasant experience, very low key and quite, but the MRI, holly cow... LOUD! I was very surprised about the noise, and the close quarters of the machine. I am not really huge, but I barely fit. And I am not sure how anyone that has the slightest bit of claustrophobia deals with the close space and the noise. Less than 24 hours latter however I got the call that no one ever wants to get. Something was seen on the left side of my brain that makes them want to take a serious look and I was asked to come back and meet with a Neuro-oncologist, and I have been put on anti-seizure medication. Holly crap folks. :omg: :wtf: :omg: Sorry to use this as a place to vent, but... Maybe I should just go vent my fears over on my own blog hugh...
Ray, I wish you the best my friend. Having recently gone through a similar ordeal, I sympathize with your worries. I just hope that its no were near as bad as you think it is and I hope that its quite a simple thing and that you're going to be complaining about the guy that called you because he gave you the wrong impression over the phone. Chin up :rose: I'm a big guy (6'2" >120Kg) and generally not claustrophobic at all but it felt quite constrained in the MRI tunnel. It was as loud as you said but they gave me ear muffs. What I hated was that occasionally, when my elbow touched the side, I'd get a minor yet unpleasant jolt through my elbow.
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So, Tuesday night I had an EEG and an MRI because of the seizure that I had. The EEG was a pleasant experience, very low key and quite, but the MRI, holly cow... LOUD! I was very surprised about the noise, and the close quarters of the machine. I am not really huge, but I barely fit. And I am not sure how anyone that has the slightest bit of claustrophobia deals with the close space and the noise. Less than 24 hours latter however I got the call that no one ever wants to get. Something was seen on the left side of my brain that makes them want to take a serious look and I was asked to come back and meet with a Neuro-oncologist, and I have been put on anti-seizure medication. Holly crap folks. :omg: :wtf: :omg: Sorry to use this as a place to vent, but... Maybe I should just go vent my fears over on my own blog hugh...
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So, Tuesday night I had an EEG and an MRI because of the seizure that I had. The EEG was a pleasant experience, very low key and quite, but the MRI, holly cow... LOUD! I was very surprised about the noise, and the close quarters of the machine. I am not really huge, but I barely fit. And I am not sure how anyone that has the slightest bit of claustrophobia deals with the close space and the noise. Less than 24 hours latter however I got the call that no one ever wants to get. Something was seen on the left side of my brain that makes them want to take a serious look and I was asked to come back and meet with a Neuro-oncologist, and I have been put on anti-seizure medication. Holly crap folks. :omg: :wtf: :omg: Sorry to use this as a place to vent, but... Maybe I should just go vent my fears over on my own blog hugh...
Hi Ray, Truly regret to hear that you've had this news. I send this link to an essay by Stephen J. Gould to anyone I know who is going through (or is a family member of someone going through, or is "facing" the possibility of) a life-threatening illness like cancer because it is so helpful in understanding the meaning of the kinds of statistics about treatment and mortality that people may hear from their doctors : it is called "The Median is Not the Message" : as you may know, Gould himself survived his own first experience with cancer (abdominal mesothelioma) for more than twenty years. And during that twenty year period, as one of the great "popularizers of post-Darwinian evolutionary theory, wrote books that have enduring value, that brought a literate, witty, and even "folksy" science (Gould was a fanatic baseball fan) to lay people in a way they could relate to. http://www.cancerguide.org/median\_not\_msg.html When I faced my ordeal with tongue cancer, this essay gave me as much "comfort" as "science" possibly could. Please do keep us updated. best, Bill
"Many : not conversant with mathematical studies, imagine that because it [the Analytical Engine] is to give results in numerical notation, its processes must consequently be arithmetical, numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine numerical quantities as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and it fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly." Ada, Countess Lovelace, 1844
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So, Tuesday night I had an EEG and an MRI because of the seizure that I had. The EEG was a pleasant experience, very low key and quite, but the MRI, holly cow... LOUD! I was very surprised about the noise, and the close quarters of the machine. I am not really huge, but I barely fit. And I am not sure how anyone that has the slightest bit of claustrophobia deals with the close space and the noise. Less than 24 hours latter however I got the call that no one ever wants to get. Something was seen on the left side of my brain that makes them want to take a serious look and I was asked to come back and meet with a Neuro-oncologist, and I have been put on anti-seizure medication. Holly crap folks. :omg: :wtf: :omg: Sorry to use this as a place to vent, but... Maybe I should just go vent my fears over on my own blog hugh...
:rose: Remember it is easy to think the worst but all you know at the moment is that they think they have seen something, hopefully it will turn out to be nothing too serious. :rose: Try to keep busy and concentrate on the good in your life until your next appointment. :rose:
Ali
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So, Tuesday night I had an EEG and an MRI because of the seizure that I had. The EEG was a pleasant experience, very low key and quite, but the MRI, holly cow... LOUD! I was very surprised about the noise, and the close quarters of the machine. I am not really huge, but I barely fit. And I am not sure how anyone that has the slightest bit of claustrophobia deals with the close space and the noise. Less than 24 hours latter however I got the call that no one ever wants to get. Something was seen on the left side of my brain that makes them want to take a serious look and I was asked to come back and meet with a Neuro-oncologist, and I have been put on anti-seizure medication. Holly crap folks. :omg: :wtf: :omg: Sorry to use this as a place to vent, but... Maybe I should just go vent my fears over on my own blog hugh...
Ray Cassick wrote:
I was asked to come back and meet with a Neuro-oncologist, and I have been put on anti-seizure medication.
It's good that they spotted it though. This gives you a much better chance, and the care available nowadays is much better.
Ray Cassick wrote:
Sorry to use this as a place to vent, but...
That's what we're here for mate. It's not just for people to post stupid jokes or recipes of the day - it's for the support you get when things go wrong.
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So, Tuesday night I had an EEG and an MRI because of the seizure that I had. The EEG was a pleasant experience, very low key and quite, but the MRI, holly cow... LOUD! I was very surprised about the noise, and the close quarters of the machine. I am not really huge, but I barely fit. And I am not sure how anyone that has the slightest bit of claustrophobia deals with the close space and the noise. Less than 24 hours latter however I got the call that no one ever wants to get. Something was seen on the left side of my brain that makes them want to take a serious look and I was asked to come back and meet with a Neuro-oncologist, and I have been put on anti-seizure medication. Holly crap folks. :omg: :wtf: :omg: Sorry to use this as a place to vent, but... Maybe I should just go vent my fears over on my own blog hugh...
Vent as much as you like Ray, we're here for each other. Hope it turns out to be benign and/or treatable.
I hope you realise that hamsters are very creative when it comes to revenge. - Elaine
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So, Tuesday night I had an EEG and an MRI because of the seizure that I had. The EEG was a pleasant experience, very low key and quite, but the MRI, holly cow... LOUD! I was very surprised about the noise, and the close quarters of the machine. I am not really huge, but I barely fit. And I am not sure how anyone that has the slightest bit of claustrophobia deals with the close space and the noise. Less than 24 hours latter however I got the call that no one ever wants to get. Something was seen on the left side of my brain that makes them want to take a serious look and I was asked to come back and meet with a Neuro-oncologist, and I have been put on anti-seizure medication. Holly crap folks. :omg: :wtf: :omg: Sorry to use this as a place to vent, but... Maybe I should just go vent my fears over on my own blog hugh...
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So, Tuesday night I had an EEG and an MRI because of the seizure that I had. The EEG was a pleasant experience, very low key and quite, but the MRI, holly cow... LOUD! I was very surprised about the noise, and the close quarters of the machine. I am not really huge, but I barely fit. And I am not sure how anyone that has the slightest bit of claustrophobia deals with the close space and the noise. Less than 24 hours latter however I got the call that no one ever wants to get. Something was seen on the left side of my brain that makes them want to take a serious look and I was asked to come back and meet with a Neuro-oncologist, and I have been put on anti-seizure medication. Holly crap folks. :omg: :wtf: :omg: Sorry to use this as a place to vent, but... Maybe I should just go vent my fears over on my own blog hugh...
Hi Ray, I'm sorry to hear that. At least they've noticed this early. Please keep us posted. My prayers shall be with you.
It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini
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So, Tuesday night I had an EEG and an MRI because of the seizure that I had. The EEG was a pleasant experience, very low key and quite, but the MRI, holly cow... LOUD! I was very surprised about the noise, and the close quarters of the machine. I am not really huge, but I barely fit. And I am not sure how anyone that has the slightest bit of claustrophobia deals with the close space and the noise. Less than 24 hours latter however I got the call that no one ever wants to get. Something was seen on the left side of my brain that makes them want to take a serious look and I was asked to come back and meet with a Neuro-oncologist, and I have been put on anti-seizure medication. Holly crap folks. :omg: :wtf: :omg: Sorry to use this as a place to vent, but... Maybe I should just go vent my fears over on my own blog hugh...
No Ray, vent here, where everyone does amongst the friendliest online community I know. I myself am experiencing SSRI withdrawal 'brain-zaps', which I hope are not seizure symptoms. I hope you learn more soon, and can make a decision regarding your fears, which are every bit as real as mine.
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Ray, I wish you the best my friend. Having recently gone through a similar ordeal, I sympathize with your worries. I just hope that its no were near as bad as you think it is and I hope that its quite a simple thing and that you're going to be complaining about the guy that called you because he gave you the wrong impression over the phone. Chin up :rose: I'm a big guy (6'2" >120Kg) and generally not claustrophobic at all but it felt quite constrained in the MRI tunnel. It was as loud as you said but they gave me ear muffs. What I hated was that occasionally, when my elbow touched the side, I'd get a minor yet unpleasant jolt through my elbow.
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
What I hated was that occasionally, when my elbow touched the side, I'd get a minor yet unpleasant jolt through my elbow.
Shite, is it that charged with electromagnetism?
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So, Tuesday night I had an EEG and an MRI because of the seizure that I had. The EEG was a pleasant experience, very low key and quite, but the MRI, holly cow... LOUD! I was very surprised about the noise, and the close quarters of the machine. I am not really huge, but I barely fit. And I am not sure how anyone that has the slightest bit of claustrophobia deals with the close space and the noise. Less than 24 hours latter however I got the call that no one ever wants to get. Something was seen on the left side of my brain that makes them want to take a serious look and I was asked to come back and meet with a Neuro-oncologist, and I have been put on anti-seizure medication. Holly crap folks. :omg: :wtf: :omg: Sorry to use this as a place to vent, but... Maybe I should just go vent my fears over on my own blog hugh...