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Timing of medication
Wed, 10/16/2013 - 01:05Topic: Medication Issues
When my son sleeps in on the weekends even just past an hour when he usually takes his meds during the week, he starts his morning with simple seizures. Anyone experiencing this? Does it mean more medication in the evening to tie him over? Will ask his neuro about this, but wondering if this is common?
Comments
Re: Timing of medication
Submitted by Nerak95 on Mon, 2013-10-21 - 01:01
Joe was right about moving the evening meds to 8. In most cases, it's best to equally divide the doses. On weekends when we all like to sleep in, I still get up at 7am to give my daughter her morning meds. Any deviation from our medication schedule always brings about seizure breakthrough.
Karen
Joe was right about moving the evening meds to 8. In most cases, it's best to equally divide the doses. On weekends when we all like to sleep in, I still get up at 7am to give my daughter her morning meds. Any deviation from our medication schedule always brings about seizure breakthrough.
Karen
Re: Timing of medication
Submitted by puglover on Mon, 2013-10-21 - 23:41
Karen,
I agree with you, Joe, and GG. We tried the 8 pm and 8 am dosing this weekend, and all was okay. My son woke up on Saturday at 8 am, took his meds, and went back to sleep until 9:30 am, and then went about his usual routine, which I think is also helpful (GG's) suggestion. He will continue in this way because it seems to work; I didn't say that though because I don't want to jinx things. (This disorder is making me superstitious!). I'm happy I found this site and appreciate all this advice.
Re: Timing of medication
Submitted by puglover on Fri, 2013-10-18 - 12:16
Hi GG, You know, I thought about it being something in the "week day" vs "weekend" routine that might also be a factor. How wonderful that your TL surgery has kept you seizure free since 2011! His routine does change on the weekend. I suffer from migraines myself and changing the routine (especially sleeping and eating) is a definite trigger. A previous neuro told me that migraines and epilepsy have many factors in common, so what you've said makes complete sense. Thanks so much for your response :) Pug