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topamax and weight loss
Fri, 09/15/2006 - 21:59Comments
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Submitted by kao_pw_45 on Sat, 2008-08-16 - 14:01
I know its been a long time since ya'll have posted this about your kids being made fun of in school but maybe you have figured something out by now but if not i may have a solution.
My little sister who is 14 just out of nowhere started having seizures. they havent officially diagnosed her with anything because they say they cant find anything or they cant find anything wrong with her. They said there was a few abnormal brain waves but thats it. They originally put her on keppra but we knew a man who was on it and my parents said no they didnt want her on it at all and to find something else to put her on.......So they finally put her on a medicine called Lamictal 200-1000mg a day...it has worked amazingly and there has been no side effects for my sister at all. No weight loss or weight gain, no insomnia....Nothing at all!!
She started off in april 2007 having her first seizure before we knew anything about her seizures.......
second one she was in August 2007 (after she was put on this medicine) we cut her dose down in the mornings to only a half a pill and our great grandfather passed away(which she was really close to him) she was crying really hard and she ate awhole lot for lunch the day we buried him and then we got home that day she feel in the kitchen floor.
Then Her last one was in November 2007 the day before thanksgiving and it was only because she had went on an overnight beta club field trip and of course being the little girls they are they stayed up all night and she got no sleep whatsoever and tried to go all the next day without a nap... so yet again she had one and the doctors think that the lack of sleep is what was causing them.....
but thank the lord it is now august 2008 and she has not had any seizures nor has she had any signs or symptoms nothing at all...and we hope thats how it will stay!
but that medicine is great and she loves it!!
I know its been a long time since ya'll have posted this about your kids being made fun of in school but maybe you have figured something out by now but if not i may have a solution.
My little sister who is 14 just out of nowhere started having seizures. they havent officially diagnosed her with anything because they say they cant find anything or they cant find anything wrong with her. They said there was a few abnormal brain waves but thats it. They originally put her on keppra but we knew a man who was on it and my parents said no they didnt want her on it at all and to find something else to put her on.......So they finally put her on a medicine called Lamictal 200-1000mg a day...it has worked amazingly and there has been no side effects for my sister at all. No weight loss or weight gain, no insomnia....Nothing at all!!
She started off in april 2007 having her first seizure before we knew anything about her seizures.......
second one she was in August 2007 (after she was put on this medicine) we cut her dose down in the mornings to only a half a pill and our great grandfather passed away(which she was really close to him) she was crying really hard and she ate awhole lot for lunch the day we buried him and then we got home that day she feel in the kitchen floor.
Then Her last one was in November 2007 the day before thanksgiving and it was only because she had went on an overnight beta club field trip and of course being the little girls they are they stayed up all night and she got no sleep whatsoever and tried to go all the next day without a nap... so yet again she had one and the doctors think that the lack of sleep is what was causing them.....
but thank the lord it is now august 2008 and she has not had any seizures nor has she had any signs or symptoms nothing at all...and we hope thats how it will stay!
but that medicine is great and she loves it!!
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Submitted by SunflowerPower on Sat, 2007-08-11 - 19:42
Boys in High School are old understand the difference between teasing and flirting. I've too often heard the word "teasing" used when the reality is that harassment or emotional and verbal abuse is far closer to the truth. Kids in school are put in a terrible position because they are often powerless to stop it. An adult would get up and walk away from someone harassing them, or even call the police. Kids however, can't do this and parents and teachers make it worse my dismissing harassment as 'flirting' and shaming and dismissing the victim. If your daughter is being harassed at school, then please take her seriously.