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I am not questioning your medical state, I am just telling you that this person that I know had this done many years ago at Columbia. Nobody in her family has ever seen her have a seizure and she is the type that if you closed your eyes she would rob you blind. Not to get too personal, but she is my wife’s sister. And let me just say one thing, in today’s day and age a person can convince a doctor to do anything that is exploratory. She collects SSDI and she works under the table and she drives.

You might want to read up more on Epilepsy. Not all seizures are what most persons recognize as being such or are even visable to others is what I'm saying.

I didn't even know what I have is considered a form of it till about a year ago when I saw it classified as being such. I drive every day but I have what is called Myoclonic seizures which cause very violent spasms in my shoulder blades and neck but not in my arms or hands so it allows me to drive for right now. A trip through a Walmart for example is enough to trigger them. So is TV in some cases.

I can have as many as several a minute on a bad day 1-2 on a good one.

Epileptic seizures are physically and mentally exhausting for a lot of people. If you didn't see me in the seizure state {BTW the seizures only last a couple of seconds} you'd see me as being healthy except I walk with a cane now due to balance issues and arthritis. You likely would not even call my seizres epeltic.

As for getting a doctor to do something expiermental? Most insurance companies balk including Medicare HMO's.