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absence seizures? signs?

Thu, 10/12/2006 - 17:12
My daughter was diagnoised with absence seizures aprox 3- 4 years ago. She is multi handicapped and has recenttly started to have an increase in her seizures. Before there was no sign of the seizures outwardly unless we caughter her "blanking out" now there seems to be a corelation going on of things we never saw before. I did give our neurologist all the information and he increased my daughter's lamicatal, for the 2nd time in the past month. My daughter has told me at different times when questioned that her head felt dizzy ( as if you were spinning around alot), that she could hear but not understand what was being said to her, that she gets very tired and then her head feels "funny" and then sometimes later she gets a headache. I am just owndering if this sounds familiar to anyone. thanks

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Re: absence seizures? signs?

Submitted by happycat2 on Thu, 2006-10-12 - 20:01
Hi catziiii. I'm sorry to hear about your daughter, and will keep her in my thoughts. I hope this answers the questions you have. The 'blanking out' your daughter describes did sound familiar, and is documented in this type of seizure. A couple of links I hope help out here. I also the med increase works. Please keep us updated on her progress. Hang in there, stay positive and upbeat-it helps. Cat. http://www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/seizure_absence.htm Author Information Introduction Clinical Differentials Workup Treatment Medication Follow-up Miscellaneous Pictures Bibliography Background: Absence seizures are a type of generalized seizures. They were first described Poupart in 1705, and later by Tissot in 1770, who used the term petit access. In 1824, Calmeil used the term absence. In 1935, Gibbs, Davis, and Lennox described the association of impaired consciousness and 3-Hz spike-and-slow-wave complexes on electroencephalograms (EEGs). Absence seizures occur in both idiopathic and symptomatic generalized epilepsies. Among the idiopathic, or primary, generalized epilepsies (ie, with age-related onset), absence seizures are seen in childhood absence epilepsy (CAE, or pyknolepsy), juvenile absence epilepsy (JAE), and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME, or impulsive petit mal seizures). The seizures in these conditions are called typical absence seizures and usually associated with 3-Hz spike-and-slow-wave complexes on EEG. In CAE, seizures are frequent and brief, lasting just a few seconds (pyknoleptic). Some children can have hundreds of such seizures per day. In other epilepsies, particularly those with an older age of onset, the seizures can last several seconds to minutes and may occur only a few times a day (called nonpyknoleptic or spanioleptic absence seizures). Myoclonic and tonic-clonic seizures may also be present, especially in syndromes with an older age of onset. In these syndromes, the discharge frequency may be faster than 3 Hz. http://www.emedicine.com/neuro/topic3.htm "Many false prophets are gone out into the world." 1 John 4:1

Re: absence seizures? signs?

Submitted by Elysia on Fri, 2006-10-13 - 01:04
Catz: her reactions seem almost the same as what I have been experiencing for 10 years. Please refer to my post: New to Site, but not to E. I have written alot about my experience with multiple sensations and headaches. If you have any questions please let me know.

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