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Having after effects of a seizure days later, is it normal?

Mon, 01/19/2015 - 18:44

Sorry, for the blank post earlier, extremely new to seizures and the website.  My daughter had two tonic clonic seizures one on Thursday night and one Friday as well as many absence seizures before and after, she was hospitalized and had many tests done in the hospital. She was finally released Sunday after what it seemed was 24 hours of being seizure free. I'm not actually sure if that was true though because the abscence seizures are so hard to point out when a child is staring at a tv all day. She had another absence seizure as soon as she got home, but the doctors said  to wait it out and she should be back to her normal self soon.  I'm concerned because I see several personality changes as well as some hyperactivity she didn't have before, I was wondering if this could be something that is still due to the seizures and could possibly wear off, or if it's the "new her" as some people have put it?

Comments

I understand, what I meant

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2015-01-20 - 16:17
I understand, what I meant was when they did me EEG it came back abnormal because it was on both sides and was diagnosed with generalized medication resistant epilepsy. I was just curious if they explained in detail the results. ( I hope that doesn't come across as snappy by the way Joe. )

When you say the EEG wasn't

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2015-01-20 - 16:17
When you say the EEG wasn't normal what exactly do you mean? Did they say she had abnormal brain waves? Did they by chance tell you if it was on one side or the other? For example I have what is considered generalized epilepsy because it is on both sides of my brain. Was she sick in anyway when this happened ( fever, hadn't been sleeping well)? Or had she bumped her head at all? Even bumping it softly is harmful if you bump just the right spot. Sorry for rambling but to Answer your question; yes it is normal for your mind body and personal traits to come back. Seizures take so much out of you! After i have a seizure arms, legs and sometimes my whole body will just twitch really hard and if someone brings it to my attention I honestly have no idea I did it. I will sometimes walk up to the walls and repeatedly hit my head on the wall and I will argue with them swearing I did not do it! But I have changed over the years but I am on so many different medication that doesn't help. P.S does anybody in your family's have a history with the condition?

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