Kyoto, such a relief that you don't have Alzheimer's and that you know what you're dealing with now.

'TEA is a form of epilepsy … Compared to TGA, episodes of TEA are typically briefer (<1 h), commonly occur on waking, have a high recurrence rate and may be accompanied by other features suggestive of epilepsy such as automatisms or olfactory and may also be interested in this discussion. 'TGA is a syndrome of abrupt and temporary (<24 h) disruption of anterograde memory' – Transient amnesia: epileptic or global? A differential diagnosis with significant implications for management I had to look these up to see that there is a difference and how they are treated is different. I noticed that you posted elsewhere ( ) that your diagnosis has been adjusted from transient global amnesia (TGA) to transient epileptic amnesia (TEA). If TGA doesn't respond to it, why has the doc prescribed it? Vimpat is a non-generic drug and it's really expensive.ĭoes anyone have a similar situation or knowledge about TGA or its treatment? I thought Lacosamide is an anti-epilepsy drug. So far so good, but I immediately checked the medical literature on TGA, and the first paper I read (published in QJM) says that TGA doesn't respond to anti-epilepsy drugs. Today, I went for my latest check-up and to get my next prescription of epilepsy (Vimpat aka Lacosamide), and he told me that in fact I have Transient Global Amnesia. From my reading, I took it that I had Transient Epileptic Amnesia. Last December, my surgeon started me on epilepsy medication, as a treatment for these memory failures. The surgeon warned of the risk of 'convulsions' in the surgical plan, and over the following year or more, I had ongoing occurrences of memory loss. The operation was successful in that my memory improved. Response to antiepileptic drugs is less evident.Įpileptic pseudodementia memory disturbances temporal lobe epilepsy transient epileptic amnesia.As I have written elsewhere on this site, I was treated surgically for a large, subarachnoid cyst (in the velum interpositum) in the summer of 2017. It is due to very frequent and recurrent subtle temporal lobe seizures. Epileptic pseudodementia is a pure disturbance of verbal episodic memory, stable over time. Interictal memory disturbances consist of autobiographic memory disorders and long term forgetting. Conversely to TGA, TEA have a shorter duration, is recurrent but have a clear-cut response to antiepileptic drugs. The main differential diagnosis is transient global amnesia (TGA). TEA is characterized by recurrent episodes of acute transient amnesia lasting less than one hour. Transient epileptic amnesia (TEA) is a subtype of medial temporal lobe epilepsy with late onset. Both represent potentially reversible memory disturbances and have a treatment based on antiepileptic drugs. Two atypical clinical epileptic syndromes should be pointed out in the elderly: the transient epileptic amnesia and the epileptic pseudodementia. ictal memory disturbances, or between seizures, i.e. These memory disturbances may occur during seizures, i.e. The epileptic syndromes, notably the temporal lobe epilepsy, frequently include memory disturbances.

Living with transient epileptic amnesia