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Help with Withdrawal Symptoms

Thu, 11/03/2016 - 15:27
Our 9 year old son's tonic/clonic seizures have stopped. He is having symptoms of terribly irritability, agitation, is hitting and pinching, can't concentrate and doesn't want to be around people, poor sleep, doesn't really want to participate in anything at all. It has been 3 months. Has this happened to anyone? How did you treat? Did it go away? Is there a med to soften this? We assume he is in this state because he has had seizures for his whole life and now they have stopped, so the brain is doing something to compensate. Very hard to experience.

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