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Not able to diagnose... Need help...
Sat, 11/22/2014 - 12:10Topic: Parents & Caregivers
I am new to this forum. My 4 years old son having seizures from past one month.we have discussed with pediatrician he asked us to take EEG.The abnormalities found in the report. It seems like primary generalized epilepsy. Pediatrician forward us to neurologist. He asked us to take MRI.It's normal result. From EEG neurologist confirmed that it would be absence seizures. He asked us to start the drug sodium valporate. But it is not controlled. Next he add the phenobarbitone drug. Not my son taking both the drug. But still have seizures. The symptoms are, eyes flickering and head shaking. Duration of the seizures is less than 6 seconds. Please guide me.
It takes a few days for the
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2014-11-26 - 11:05
It takes a few days for the medication levels to build in the body which is why you don't see changes fast. Once the dosage is changed then it takes time for the levels in the body to be where they need to be. As for the EEG most people do not know that the EEG's can only read teh electrical impulses to a certain depth of the brain. You can research the type of seizures on this site. But without knowing the type of epilepsy it would not help much. I do know you are concerned because it is your son. I also know that a person can have more then 1 type of epilepsy and if that is the case more then one type of seizure. There are 40+ different types of seizures. What is listed in that type of seizure is generic. I say that because a seizure for one person may not have the things another person has even if they have the same type of epilepsy and type of seizureAmy Jo has it right still working for control. Also understand tha tto one person control is NO SEIZURES WHAT SO EVER. With someone else control is a seizure now and then. There are no gaurentees. As a teen I had seizures and they were different because they were comming from different kinds of epilepsy absence seizures are blips in time and are not known by the person having them. partial seizures are basically the same as are focal seizures. I had been written up for day dreaming in class when in reality those day dreams were seizures. I had wierd feelings in my right hand and at times it would start to rise up Focal seizure starting to generalize. If my hand went up shoulder high it them becane a generalize focal seizure and I was in a full blown convulsion which looked like a tonic clonic (grand Mal seizure) So which seizures do I have and what type of epilepsy. My diagnosis was grand Mal,Petite Mal and Focal motor epilepsy. The diagnosis was made long before they came up with types of epilepsy and types of seizures. But it is to say a person can have more then 1 type of epilepsy and type of seizure.