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One seizure was enough

Mon, 07/03/2006 - 21:27
Hi, All, I'm new here--stopped by the site looking for info after having my first (and so far, knock on wood, only) seizure two weeks ago. I'm 28. It scared the daylights out of me and my family. My EEG and MRI were clear. Doctor said right now the best thing to do is try to stay healthy and wait and see what happens next--that if something's wrong, I'll have another. Could be just a fluke or a blood sugar thing, etc. I'm sure you folks know the possibilities better than I. I would like to perhaps get a second opinion (did not love neurologist #1) and keep gathering information. Anybody else had just one? Or have any advice for me in this uncertain time?? Thanks for providing this place for support and info, y'all...I appreciate it. --w.e.

Comments

Lots of people have seizures

Submitted by EarthMonkey on Sat, 2008-01-05 - 17:17
Lots of people have seizures from fevers, which strep throat can cause.  If a person has a seizure from having a fever there is no reason to assume the person will have seizures when they are not running a fever.  When I was diagnosed with epilepsy I met a number of people who had or had family memebrs who had had seizures from a fever and never had any outside of a fever.  

Re: One seizure

Submitted by jewels87 on Thu, 2009-11-26 - 03:18

Fevers can cause seizures in infants and small children.  http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/febrile_seizures/detail_febrile_seizures.htm

 

A fever is what started mine but now I'm well controlled.

Fevers can cause seizures in infants and small children.  http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/febrile_seizures/detail_febrile_seizures.htm

 

A fever is what started mine but now I'm well controlled.

Re: One seizure

Submitted by sctsd on Wed, 2011-09-14 - 17:30

When my daughter was roughly three years old, she got a throat infection that (after taking her to her pediatrician) we believed was a cold.  One day, she was in my wife's arms and said she was tired and wanted to take a nap.  My wife put her down on the couch and seconds later she experienced her first grand mal.  For the next month in and out of the hospital she kept having seizures.  At her worst point, her motor skills on her right had drastically diminished to the point where she couldn't walk or use her right arm.  Antibiotic after antibiotic the best pediatric neuro dr could not figure out what was going on.  Finally, on a whim, one of them started to think outside the box and deduced that the "cold" she had was not a cold.  By now almost 6 mo had past, and while THANK THE LORD she made a full recovery, she kept getting strep.  They couldn't seem to reach what was the cause so for about the next year she kept seeing our new pediatrician (yes we never saw the old one again) who continued to prescribe antibiotics.  It seemed strange that every couple weeks she was getting sick so we sat down and had a lenghty consultation with him.  He reviewed her records and came up with the conclusions: the strep could be treated with antibiotics but none of them were killing it and she was always getting sick because her immune system was shot due to all the antibiotics.  He referred us to a ENT specialist who quickly diagnosed that her tonsels were the problem.  Some how the bacteria was dominant there and was causing all the problems.  So here we are, at five years old.  She has her appt in two weeks to get them removed.

 Wish us luck and plenty of prayers.

 Isaac

When my daughter was roughly three years old, she got a throat infection that (after taking her to her pediatrician) we believed was a cold.  One day, she was in my wife's arms and said she was tired and wanted to take a nap.  My wife put her down on the couch and seconds later she experienced her first grand mal.  For the next month in and out of the hospital she kept having seizures.  At her worst point, her motor skills on her right had drastically diminished to the point where she couldn't walk or use her right arm.  Antibiotic after antibiotic the best pediatric neuro dr could not figure out what was going on.  Finally, on a whim, one of them started to think outside the box and deduced that the "cold" she had was not a cold.  By now almost 6 mo had past, and while THANK THE LORD she made a full recovery, she kept getting strep.  They couldn't seem to reach what was the cause so for about the next year she kept seeing our new pediatrician (yes we never saw the old one again) who continued to prescribe antibiotics.  It seemed strange that every couple weeks she was getting sick so we sat down and had a lenghty consultation with him.  He reviewed her records and came up with the conclusions: the strep could be treated with antibiotics but none of them were killing it and she was always getting sick because her immune system was shot due to all the antibiotics.  He referred us to a ENT specialist who quickly diagnosed that her tonsels were the problem.  Some how the bacteria was dominant there and was causing all the problems.  So here we are, at five years old.  She has her appt in two weeks to get them removed.

 Wish us luck and plenty of prayers.

 Isaac

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