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currently having a video eeg

Wed, 05/06/2015 - 18:28
My daughter is 14 months old. She had an eeg that showed seizure activity on the right side of her brain and since she was admitted for having possible seizures they put her on keppra immediately. After increasing the dose 3 times I put my foot down because her neurologist started playing "games". One visit we were told they didn't think she was having seizures and the next we were told she could be having more than 1 type of seizures. Here we are on a 72 hour video eeg. Does anybody know what the number mean? There's is a box that says Spike detection, spike events, seizure detection, seizure events. I've asked everybody and nobody will explain it to me other than saying it's "not a definite seizure detection" help please!

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eeg that showed seizure

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 2015-05-10 - 12:05
eeg that showed seizure activity on the right side of her brain and since she was admitted for having possible seizures they put her on keppra immediately. Spikes or waves are abnormalities in the electrical output comming from your brain. Abnormalities show seizure activity comming from that area. Seizure activity does not mean she is having a seizure. It means that there is activity that can cause the electrical impulse to hit wrong. All a seizure is "Is an electrical impulse going off wrong in the brain (seizure activity. impulse hitting wrong) causing a chain reaction (the seizure itself)"As for putting your foot down... ease up some. I say that because seizure medications are mothing like aspirin where one size fits all. It takes time for the body to build up the theraputic levels the neurologist thinks she needs. With most people that time period would be 4-6 weeks. If her seizures stopped completely then no adjustments needed to be maid. If she is till having seizures then the dosages need to be increased or decreased and that time period starts again. So your neurologist is not playing games. If the neurologist has prescribed a medication at a certain dosage he is using a medication and dosage he has a patient on that is your daughters size and age. SO ease up and listen to what the neurologist sayd. Oh and if she had been told to take a medication 2 times a day tehn those times need to be 12 hours apart or she could be having breakthru seizures. You see it took me a long period of time to learn what I am posting. I am posting from my own experiances. I know it takes time to get medications set. I also know that once a nedication is ttopped the levels take time to leave your body. It took about 6 weeks for one to get completely out of my system. I thought my meds needed to be changed. But No the medication I had been testing finally left my body and that medication had been keeping me from having some of the seizures I has started to have.

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