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Tue, 09/27/2016 - 23:25Topic: Family & Friends
Ok so my daughter has epilepsy and normally hers are the grand mal seizures and happen while she is sleeping but just last week she had an absence seizure waching tv. Tonight my oldest daughter came and got me out of the shower because her sister had got out of bed and had her eyes closed walking to the kitchen. When my oldest daughter got me my youngest was walking past us saying "I am going mom I am going mom". At this point her eyes were open. Before she could get to the door thankfully locked I asked her where she was going.she suddenly got a scared look on her face and then said that she wanted her mom. I told her that it was ok I was right there and let's go back to bed. She still had the worried look on her face but once in bed she covered up and went right to sleep. Could this be something more than sleepwalking? She has had similar episodes in the past but I hadn't ever put two and two together because we just found out a year and a half ago about her having seizures and it's still all pretty new to me.
Just because she has had
Submitted by just_joe on Wed, 2016-09-28 - 11:30
Just because she has had grand mal during the night does not mean those are the only seizures she will have. You posted she had an absence seizure last week. Well the seizure she might have had was a complex partial seizure. So research the different types pf seizures because there are several types of seizures she can have.If a person has had a grand mal seizure then their seizures can generalize, So research. I have had a grand mal, had absence seizures. Follow those with focal seizures partial seizures which have several other seizures there. They do generalize so just research. If you get medications to control her seizures then keep a good relationship with the neurologist so dosage adjustments can be made as she grows/ Weight and hormones can affect the medications. So if she gains weight it changes from a kid to a teen adjustments will need to be made.