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6 year old started on Trileptal Today - All advice welcomed

Sun, 05/28/2006 - 00:07

Topic: New to Epilepsy.com

My six year old daughter was stared on Trileptal today. She has had 3 seizures (June 2005/Jan 2006/May 2006). Each of her seizures have occurred during her sleep, starting about 11:00 PM. She will wake up, begin to cough and then vomit several times. Once the vomiting is complete, she has a absence stare that continues for more than 30 minutes. Each time we have rushed to the emergency for assistance, becasuse the absence stare lasted so long. Has anyone out there seen anything like this before. Any feedback on any similar situations would be greatly appreciated. She was a little drowsy today, as expected with her being on the drug for the first day. I'm so concerned about school and will she be drowsy in class after taking her morning dosage.

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Re: 6 year old started on Trileptal Today - All advice welcomed

Submitted by ekoorb on Sun, 2006-06-25 - 22:25

Hi. I was just wondering what happened with the neurologist. I still would love to set up a time to connect on this issue through the chat room. Is there a time that is good for you?

Re: 6 year old started on Trileptal Today - All advice welcomed

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2006-11-28 - 07:49

Hi there! Sorry to hear about your daughter. Sometimes it's hard to tell what symptoms may be related to seizures versus medicine effects. When things like staring, vomiting and sleepiness happen around time of seizures, it's important to find out if these are postictal or after-effects, or part of a seizure. This will help tell what to do. Tracking these symptoms and sharing with doctor will help pick up patterns and see if other meds are needed. Or if symptoms are medicine related. Sometimes children who are having long seizures need meds to help break these cycles. If after-effects of seizures, then need a plan on best way to help her recover.

Here are a few links to articles on teens but basics also pertain to younger children to help sort out seizures, and ways to track them.

www.epilepsy.com/info/exceptional_parents.html

www.epilepsy.com/info/family_kids.html

www.epilepsy.com/pdfs/tips_seizure_observation.pdf

www.epilepsy.com/pdfs/event_calendar.pdf

It's not unusual to see side effects when a person is beginning a medicine that may go away as the child gets used to it. Take a look at the general information on seizure medicines. Monitoring how a child does in school and sharing info with doctor is very important too!

www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/seizure_medicines.html

Sometimes people want to look at other treatments - make sure many questions are asked about any treatment. Parents should be aware of what is known and not known, and what data is available about who it may work on and who it doesn't!

Hope the info helps as you browse around!

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