Hello I have had seizures since about 2005 or 2006 I cant remember. My grandma told that my mother had seizures when she was a baby. They were fever induced seizures and I am wondering if they could have passed down to me. But the problem is that she outgrew...

my 8yr old daughter has been taking zarontin for her absence seizures for 3 months. she took 5ml twice a day for the first 2 months and in the last month, since she's still experiencing seizures, her doc raised the dosage to 6 ml twice a day. Now the seizures...

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My son 13yrs old has complex partial seizures, over the last 3 months he has started screaming and repeating statements as well as pacing. is this part of complex partial or is it something else?

my son has complex partial seizures but I believe he had a tonic clonic while sleeping last night.. He was having a very off day yesterday.. He explained it like he felt very dulled.. He had trouble remembering the days events also..he said he just didnt feel...

My son was diagnosed with BRE at the age of 7 he has been siezure free for just over 12 months. I can,t seem to find out if this means that it is over for him now. can anyone help. 

I am trying to get extended time for my 17 year-old to take the ACT.  She has JME and ADD.  JME diagnosed Jan 2009; 1st seizure Dec. 2008.  The ADD began with the Epilepsy/meds.  Any suggestions?    

My daughter is 2.5 years old and has been having absent seizures for 3 months.  She was put on keppra 3 months ago and it seemed to be working but now we are changing to Zarontin since the seizures seem to be getting longer and maybe more frequent.  Until I...

Dear sir, I am sujay paul from India, my daughter who is now 3 years old is a patient of childhood epilepsy.  It faced 1st attack on 2-09-07, 2nd on 12-12-07, 3rd on 28-01-2008 then i visited to a neurologist and according to his suggestion i started...

MY SON LAST YEAR 2007 HE WAS SUFFER FOR ENCEPHALITIS AND THAT REASON HE STARTED HAS SOME  SEIZURES IS PARTIAL HE STARTED ON THE LEFT SIDE AND HE CAN BREATH WELL AND HIS SALIVA COME DOWN FOR HIS MOUTH HE IS IN 3 MEDICATION TRILEPTAL, ZONEGRAM, DEPAKOTE HE...

I have a 6 year old child who is potentially having seizures. He had one EEG in July and the Neurologist never sent the results on to the pedicatrician. A month later I asked the pedi to follow up and he found out that the EEG was abnormal. We have since...

My Son is 5 year old healthy 17 kg(slightly underweight) and hyper active kid. The delivery was normal and no such high fever or accident till date. 15 days ago he experienced seizure while at school for the first time. In the last 2 weeks, he has 9 seizures....

My 7yo has been dx with BRE (Benign Rolandic Epilepsy), although he has additional symptoms at times. His main intense seizure period involving speech arrest,, throaty sounds, shaking of face and arm lasts about 1-2mins, but sometimes speech arrest...

I have a 4-year old son who was diagnosed with complex partial seizures when he was 2 years old.  For the past 8 months, his seizures seem to have been controlled by Trileptal, but now he is having brief seconds where he "feels yucky" in his head. ...

My 4 month old has been having seizures since birth.  They are usually tonic-clonic, lasting 2-4 minutes in a series of 2 or 3.  Sometimes she has absence seizures, also in a series of 2 or 3.  she has 3-4 of these episodes a month. This is something new....

My son is 4 now. He had his first febrile seizure when he was about 11 months old. He had his second a year later. Then he didn't have another one for a year and a half. Now, he had 4 in 6 months time. (This brings the total to 6 seizures, all with a fever.)

My 14 year old daughter was diagnosed about 8 months ago with JME. She was put on Keppra and had a breakthrough grand mal seizure. After a video eeg, the doctor determined that she wasn't responding the Keppra and we started to put her on Lamictal with the...

Hi, My son developed tonic/clonic seizures at 15 and when he went to uni at 18 he took himself off all medication. Now 22 and in his last few months at uni, he has had two seizures in his sleep within a month. He's started taking Eipilim again but it obviously...

I need to know about Dilantin and having dental surgery.  I am scared to death because I read that Dilantin does not mix with a lot of things, so I'm worried about anesthesia.  Also, I read where valium should not be administered.  Is there anything that...

Help! I have two children with E who have been given precriptions for Keppra! I know that they both need to give meds a try but I am at a loss as to how to prepare the school for possible emotional effects that might arise from this med. I am a former teacher...