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Can barbiturates effect an eeg in a teen if the giver does not know the med is in your system ?
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Possibly: The eeg will show "slowing" or other effects that may be due to phenobarbital. Is this a historically pertinent question- like "i just was thinking?" or is this a contemporaneous problem? If you've not had a seizure in 14 years, you're probably not going to get another. The phenobarb may have influenced the interpretation of the eeg back then.
Answered 2/25/2017
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