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stomach pain/epilepsy
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Just wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience. My 11 year old son has epilepsy. He was originally diagnosed with benign rolandic, but now the doctors are not too sure if this is the type he has. He fits some of the criteria, but definitely is not a textbook case. His typical seizure is a simple partial with mostly facial twitching and drooling. He also has lots of auras. He hasn't had a seizure since December 29th.
About once a month, he gets sick. His symtoms are nausea, stomach pain, vomiting, eye pain. It usually lasts for a day or two. No one else in our house ever gets sick when he has these episodes. I'm starting to ramble so I'll get to the point. I have a call into his doctor, but just wanted to get some other opinions. Do you think the nausea, stomach pain, etc. could be some type of seizure activity? It has been going on since he was about 3, but his first seizure was when he has 8. He is currently taking Lamictal and Carbatrol. I appreciate any input. Thanks.
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My daughter is mildly mentally handicapped due to "our" traumatic birth experience (caused by placenta previa). She is now 35, but when she was a baby and a toddler she would get the "throw-ups". She would be ashen-faced and clammy. Her upset stomach and lethargy would sometimes last a couple days. EEGs showed "irregular brain activity", petit mals, and she went on Zarontin until she was seven.
I heard a doctor mention "stomach elipsey" and I latched onto it, since other than the EEGs there were not other symptoms. She outgrew it, Now as an adult, she frequently gets an upset stomach and loses a meal. When she has not eaten for awhile she gets nauseau. Sometimes she awakens nauseaus (sp) until she has eaten something. I just attributed it to her psysiological weak area....
Lately, I have begun to think that these stomach episodes might be the same phenomona.....stomach epilepsy (if there is actually such a thing).
Hello!! I don't know who much I can help, I'm still new to all of this but my daugther is 2 and has complex and simple partials. I have noticed that she will get sick to her stomach or throw up out of no where and no one else is sick. It only lasts a day, or a few hours and then is over. I don't know if it is seizures or what it is, but I think it's kind of odd that she does this and then a few days later is followed by a more pronounced complex partial. Basically from what I have learned is that seizures can be different everytime and that you can't rule out possible seizure activity. You will have to let us know what you find out with the stomach stuff, I have read that vomitting can be an aura to the seizures, so maybe he is having simple partials when this is happening, it's just in a different form then what you are used to.
Good luck!!
Thanks for responding. We've felt for a long time that this is somehow related to his seizures, but the doctors have passed it off as migraines because he usually experiences the eye pain first, then the vomiting. The last few times it has happened, it hasn't necessarily been in that same order. We'll see what they say now. I don't really know that it will change anything with his treatment anyways, but I guess it would be nice to know. I will keep you posted. Thanks again.
Chris
Hello, thought this may come in handy.
Whenever I have a Tonic-Clonic seizure the first thing I do when I come out of it is throw up, then go to sleep for hours. I have always been like that from as far back as I can recall.
Simple Partials do not affect me the same as Complex Partials, however if you’ve read anything about Complex Partials the description often includes someone “smacking their lipsâ€. I have always (I’m 34 and I’ve had this my entire life) had to swallow hard during CP’s to keep myself from throwing up. It never fails. I even explain to my friends and acquaintances that the so-called lip smacking that books so often describe is actually me trying my hardest not to get sick to my stomach. My mouth starts watering and everything, sometimes I can control it, and sometimes not (I try to keep a sense of humor about it, and it’s a lousy side effect when you answer a phone for a living).
Hope this helps you,
Susan