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Silent seizures whole body pain and severe shaking. lasting almost 1 1/2 week now want to know what it is?

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Dr. Donald Alves answered

Specializes in Emergency Medicine

Time for Neurologist: This is unusual, and needs a good history & exam with likely MRI and/or eeg by a neurologist to identify what is going on.

Answered 9/28/2016

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