Good evening. My name is Dr. Saghafi and I am a neurologist from Cleveland, Ohio, USA. You are correct in that for the most part, epilepsy itself itself as a disease entity is not said to exist in a patient until there are at least 2 unprovoked seizures occurring less than 24 hrs. apart. But there s a catch. That s in a situation where there is no obvious source of abnormalities following thorough workup. In other words, let s say you have a convulsive episode of some sort. You are taken to the ER and they diagnose you with convulsion of unknown cause. They schedule you to see the neurologist in a week or so. You go to the neurologist and go through his battery of testing (MRI, EEG, maybe even spinal tap if there is an indication)....and lo and behold there is an EEG abnormality of some sort...MRI is clean and everything is good....but the EEG has something which suggests a potential for seizure. In that case the treating physician should be recommending medication protection and not wait for a 2nd event to occur. He s already got the smoking gun in hand. Now, in your case what he s got is some kind of abnormal DRIVING RESPONSE TO PHOTIC STIMULATION. I d be happy to look at it for you if you get the results of the run and scan that and send it to me on the PREMIUM SIDE OF THIS CHANNEL (Dariush Saghafi, MD). Then, I can look at the recording and give you an opinion. On the other hand if you re not confident in what the physician is seeing on the recording then, I d definitely seek out a 2nd opinion.