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What Causes Float Off Sensation After Seizure?
Question: I asked at the end of December about how I an epileptic is having five or ten minute float offs after for a very long time has been only having a seizure every four or five weeks.I have been discharged from the neurologist. I was sent last week by my own gp for an MRI scan on my head,but there won't be a result for about three weeks.So obviously I am getting concerned with what it could be.Could you be able to help?Thanking you in anticipation.
Brief Answer:
It can be normal or may have some structural abnnormality.
Detailed Answer:
Hi XXXX,
Thanks for being on Healthcaremagic.com.
I am Dr.Ajay Panwar, a neurologist, here to answer your query.
I have read your previous discussions with fellow neurologists and read your clinical history.
Your present float offs(likely complex partial seizures) on the background of seizures every 4 to 5 weeks(probably generalised seizures,petit mal is also a generalised seizure type), definitely indicate that you must undergo a brain imaging(like MRI).
Possibilities on MRI-
1)may be normal-MRI comes out to be normal in many cases of generalised seizures(Generalised seizures can be idiopathic sometimes and sometimes with drugs or alcohol)
2)Space occupying lesion(SOL)- like a infectious granuloma or a tumor may be present sometimes,causing partial seizures which may secondarily generalise.Float offs may occur with SOL in temporal lobe of the brain.
3)Sometimes strokes may present with seizures(unlikely in your case)
4)Metabolic disturbances like uremia,abnormal blood sugar or abnormal serum electrolytes may reflect some changes in MRI causing seizures sometimes(unlikely in your case).
Your MRI may turn out to be either of the first two possibilities mentioned above.
Hope I have answered your query.If you have some follow-up queries,I shall be glad to answer,else please close the thread-rate it and write a review.
Dr.Ajay Panwar,
MD,DM(Neurology)
It can be normal or may have some structural abnnormality.
Detailed Answer:
Hi XXXX,
Thanks for being on Healthcaremagic.com.
I am Dr.Ajay Panwar, a neurologist, here to answer your query.
I have read your previous discussions with fellow neurologists and read your clinical history.
Your present float offs(likely complex partial seizures) on the background of seizures every 4 to 5 weeks(probably generalised seizures,petit mal is also a generalised seizure type), definitely indicate that you must undergo a brain imaging(like MRI).
Possibilities on MRI-
1)may be normal-MRI comes out to be normal in many cases of generalised seizures(Generalised seizures can be idiopathic sometimes and sometimes with drugs or alcohol)
2)Space occupying lesion(SOL)- like a infectious granuloma or a tumor may be present sometimes,causing partial seizures which may secondarily generalise.Float offs may occur with SOL in temporal lobe of the brain.
3)Sometimes strokes may present with seizures(unlikely in your case)
4)Metabolic disturbances like uremia,abnormal blood sugar or abnormal serum electrolytes may reflect some changes in MRI causing seizures sometimes(unlikely in your case).
Your MRI may turn out to be either of the first two possibilities mentioned above.
Hope I have answered your query.If you have some follow-up queries,I shall be glad to answer,else please close the thread-rate it and write a review.
Dr.Ajay Panwar,
MD,DM(Neurology)
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Dr. Vinay Bhardwaj
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