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What is this?

Wed, 06/20/2007 - 11:26
Kaitlyn had another seizure of some sort yesterday. I am not sure what it was, but I am hoping that maybe one of you might have experienced something similar to what she is having so that way I know what it is. She has now had 3 of these episodes. The first 2 I didn't witness, my husband did. I saw the end of the 2nd one and it was almost exactly the same as this one. When I went into her room to wake her from a nap yesterday I found her laying on her stomach with her eyes open and she didn't look right. I went over to her and she was having this little jerks and twitches. Her eyes were jumping around and were dialated. I picked her up and she was limp and then went stiff and then went limp again. I was holding her like a baby across my arms trying to talk to her, and she wouldn't even look in my direction. She would sream for a half a second and then would stop. This went on for about 4-5 minutes and then stopped. After it stopped we sat in the chair and she just sat there, not saying anything, not moving but her eyes were responsive when I would talk to her, still dialated. She just sat there for another 25 minutes. Finally 30 minutes after I found her, she got up out of no where and was playing again. She acted like she was out of sorts for the rest of the evening. She was irratable and grouchy. The first time that this happened, she had a long day and took a late nap. The second time I don't think there was anything really going on. Yesterday she had woken up early, went to bed late the night before and then took an extremely long nap. She normally takes a hour nap, and yesterday it was about 2 1/2 almost 3 hour nap. I don't know how long she was like this before I went in there. Anyone know what this is?? Thanks! Emily

Comments

Re: What is this?

Submitted by rikk on Sun, 2008-12-21 - 11:53
the only way to be sure is a complete evaluation by a doc.  all possible cause need to be assessed, not just seizure disorders.  there are too many things that can mimic seizure activity.  some are sugar disorder, sleep disorder, migraine, blood pressure.  the process should be a rule out process instead of jumping to a specific diagnosis, and making what is happening fit the diagnonsi.  hope it helps.  rikk

Re: What is this?

Submitted by littlebug on Wed, 2007-06-20 - 17:50
My daughter has done that only once.It was a few months ago. This wasnt a normal seizure for us so it was very concerning. It was a seizure but I'm not sure what it is classified under. For us it just wasnt a normal seizure. She had been having a cluster of seizures that week.Any where from 8-25 a day.That only happend once. Have you called your doc yet.If not you need to. Because this was the second cluster of seizures in a two month time period we are in the middle of switching meds. She too snapped out of it like nothing had happend. It was very strange. All I was told was that it was a seizure.

I called the doctor and she

Submitted by kaitlynsmom on Thu, 2007-06-21 - 11:58
I called the doctor and she didn't tell me much except that I should have given her the Diastat because it sounds like the seizure was over 30 minutes. So I don't know. This is just so difficult because it's so hard to tell if she is still in it if she doesn't jump up and play right away and I thought that since she was looking at me afterwards that she was out of it. I guess not. The doctor said that if she doesn't go to sleep right after it or jump and play right away then it's not over yet. If her eyes are still dialated then she is still in it and after 5 minutes of any type of seizure state I need to give her the Diastat. It gets so overwhelming sometimes. Thanks for the reply!! Take care! Emily

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