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Focal Cordical Displasia Type II, no seizures

Thu, 09/10/2015 - 22:52

My daughter is 10 years old. Since she was around two she's had behavior issues. She has been diagnosed with ADHD, ODD (she's now outgrown this), anxiety, and has OCD tendencies. The medications she is currently on for these issues has helped very much! In the past 7 months she has fainted or had a seizure twice. The "episodes" were 3 weeks apart. Doctors are not sure if they were fainting or seizures. The looked to be fainting episodes, but she had an EEG which the results came back abnormal. If I understand correctly, the results showed she was a high risk for seizure activity. After being re-evalutation by neuropsych, it was suggested due to having average intelligence and low memory scores that she get an MRI. I requested she get an MRI done. After the MRI, she has been diagnosed with Focal Cordical Displasia on the right frontal lobe. She is FCD type II. Due to her new diagnosis the doctors can't say her episodes are for sure fainting, but they aren't comfortable saying they were seizures at this point either. I've been trying to educate myself on FCD, and find myself getting confused. All the research and information I am finding are on children with seizures. She has test results that support her diagnosis, but no symptoms. Has anyone else had a child who was diagnosed with FCD type II, and stayed seizure free? Or is it rare that she has no symptoms? I have concerns she may be having seizures I am not noticing, but being ADHD her spacing out for a couple seconds is hard to distinguish. As of now it appears there are no signs of seizures. Any experiences or suggestions would be appreciated!

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