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Sleep/Behavior Problems linked to BOCE?
Thu, 09/09/2010 - 12:43
We have a 3 1/2 year old son we adopted @ 2 1/2 months of age. We bonded w/ him @ birth, I am a stay @ home mom.
He has always had sleep issues! He's never been a good "sleeper". My mothers intuition has always told me "something" was wrong. We have a wonderful pediatrician that has helped tremendously. We have had a sleep study done w/ a diagnosis of night terrors & eeg backed up diagnosis however they wanted to do a sleep deprived eeg just to make sure there weren't any further issues.
The second eeg came w/ the diagnosis of BOCE. Nuerologists said he had a "very impressive" eeg w/ several spikes. We have bascially been told by nuerologoists he may or may not ever have a convulsive seizure. There have been several things that have concerned me about his behavior/sleep deprevation but they will not confirm or deny if they were "episodes" related to spikes.
If anyone has any advise/support on things I can do to help him sleep better & better manage aggressive behavior I would appreciate it. We have an appointment next week w/ a child phycologist. Now we will have his pediatrician, 2 nuerologists & a phychologist involved.
Re: Sleep/Behavior Problems linked to BOCE?
Submitted by shubu on Fri, 2010-09-10 - 04:09
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