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22 month old
Mon, 08/14/2017 - 18:59Topic: Parents & Caregivers
My 22 month old started having seizures on Friday morning then proceeded to have 6 more all in less than 24hrs. We where admitted to children's hospital, had an eeg and MRI with normal results. Doctor started her on kepra 1ml and bumping up in a week to 1.5ml. I'm so nervous to leave her alone and have anxiety just thinking about sleeping. Any advice would be amazing.
keppra usually starts working
Submitted by Amy Jo on Tue, 2017-08-15 - 01:22
keppra usually starts working right away, before one gets to the target dose so you will likely notice a change right away.so are you set up with follow up appointments? do you know what kind of seizures she was having?it doesn't sound unusual to have those feelings. for some medical reasons many parents have had a child sleep nearby or with a monitor for years so I'm not one to say it's always easy. our youngest has a condition where she's more prone to vomiting when things aren't going well (which can spiral to getting admitted easily soon after) but I was more freaked about our child potentially choking during sleep than worried about seizures. please know that most seizures stop on their own and are not an emergency. if her earlier seizures stopped without intervention, that's an easier history. medication should improve things - often the first med does the trick but only in ~half the cases, another ~20% takes quite a bit of work finding what can work and ~30% are refractory.