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I had a seizure during my eeg can this mean i have epilepsy for sure?
3 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
Not necessarily: Epilepsy is recurrent unprovoked seizures. Its a clinical diagnosis. An eeg can support a dignosis of epilepsy espcially if it shows focal discharges when you are not haveing a seizure.
Answered 5/2/2014
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