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Grow out of seizures???
Sun, 05/21/2006 - 21:52Topic: Parents & Caregivers
Hey, have you other parents out there heard that your child could grow out of their seizure disorder? My Zakry has idiopathic epi, so does that mean that he should be able to grow out of it? We are running one more metabolic test, but that's just to be safe (we thought he had MSUD). Has anyone else heard this? Has anyone else had an experience where someone "grew out of it?" Just looking for the positive!
Re: Grow out of seizures???
Submitted by shannasdmomof3 on Sat, 2007-10-13 - 01:41
My daughter was diagnosed with complex partial seizures. Her seizures are also idiopathic. We saw our neuro a couple of days ago and he is of the opinion that if the seizures are well controlled with medications, there is typically a higher chance of "outgrowing" the seizures. This is not indicative of the type of seizure either. He said that most types of seizure can be outgrown. So there is hope that your child will not have to live with seizures for the rest of his life. Sadly, we believe our daughter began to manifest a new type of seizure today, Infantile Spasms. She started throwing herself forward at her waist. At first we thought she was just trying to sit up, she is 12 weeks old, but she kept doing it over and over. It was pretty scarry. Her appointment with the neuro went so well on Wednesday. Her development has been on target so far, so we are hopeful that she will be ok. We go back to Children's Hospital tomorrow for yet another hospital stay and EEG. We are hoping for the best.