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Depakote, Behaviors, and personality
Mon, 02/11/2008 - 19:22Comments
Re: Depakote, Behaviors, and personality
Submitted by Bshop710 on Fri, 2008-09-12 - 21:22
My son was diagnosed with epilepsy at around 3 years of age. We went through a few meds and "med hell." I finally got a new med, at that time, Zonegran with Depakote and that got my son fairly seizure free for a few years, with one or two break through seizures. Since he has Aspergers' also, his behaviors were never typical and I learned to accept my son for who he is and what his take is on the world. Believe me, this has been a challenging road but it has taught me so much. Now that he is 14, his seizures have kicked in again. He had been on Depakote and we slowly increased the amount with each seizure. He has Grand-mal. This last year I saw my son become a hostile, depressed, angry at me for everything kid. He doesn't care about school, learning and his life in general..I got a new neurologist and have started slowly going on Lamictal and have seen some good and bad changes...We are still going up on the Lamictal...You have to watch for the rash.. But my son FINALLY realizes his triggers, not enough sleep and irregular sleep patterns have caused his seizures...And I am determined to get my son seizure free....Good luck !!!
My son was diagnosed with epilepsy at around 3 years of age. We went through a few meds and "med hell." I finally got a new med, at that time, Zonegran with Depakote and that got my son fairly seizure free for a few years, with one or two break through seizures. Since he has Aspergers' also, his behaviors were never typical and I learned to accept my son for who he is and what his take is on the world. Believe me, this has been a challenging road but it has taught me so much. Now that he is 14, his seizures have kicked in again. He had been on Depakote and we slowly increased the amount with each seizure. He has Grand-mal. This last year I saw my son become a hostile, depressed, angry at me for everything kid. He doesn't care about school, learning and his life in general..I got a new neurologist and have started slowly going on Lamictal and have seen some good and bad changes...We are still going up on the Lamictal...You have to watch for the rash.. But my son FINALLY realizes his triggers, not enough sleep and irregular sleep patterns have caused his seizures...And I am determined to get my son seizure free....Good luck !!!
Re: Depakote, Behaviors, and personality
Submitted by ValNewLife on Tue, 2008-03-11 - 08:47
Absolutely! When we first started down this road, we didn't question our Neurologist, because quite frankly, we had no idea what questions to ask! We knew nothing about this new world we had just entered! In the last two years we have learned (the hard way!) to trust our instincts. We refused to believe that it was our son and not the medicine! Everything pointed to the medicine, but it wasn't "typical", so the Neurologists (yes, more then one) said it was our son and he would mostl likely be this way forever! We kept pushing, kept changing Neurologists... We felt so alone, and even questioned ourselves at times, but we finally found a Neurologist (A young one, relatively) who listened to us, and believed us! We got our son back! Don't give up! Trust your instincts! You know your child! God Bless! Val