Neurologists - Winfield, IL

"I saw her once. A respected neurologist did a 24 hour EEG on me one or two years prior and there were a number of temporal lobe seizures The next year I switched because the other neuro made me uncomfortable. Then the new Northwestern doctor, feeling epilepsy was the worst thing in the world -- TLE is not that bad; I have far more difficult conditons than the seizures -- tried to take away my seizure diagnosis by leaving me in a sterile hospital bed two days on the maximum dose of a seizure med that I said was working. I sat on the bed all day and, shocker, no seizures. Rao preferred to ignore the more telling at home lesser dosage of Topamax results, trying to label me as having no seizures, just pseudoseizures, though the test with me at home on the migraine dose of Topamax showed a bunch of seizures. This is common sense! Someone isn't"t not epileptic because the max dose of a seizure med works! Fortunately switched to Echiveri who knew my 24 EEG results were more valuable and he is treating my seizures and other issues in his specialty. Rao talks too fast and is confrontational, expecting instant response (hard for an autistic!) Go with Echiveri -- really also Edwards doctors quickly have surpassed Northwestern in quality. Indeoendent doctors are better luck for me tol. Rao also has no bedside manner."