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Topic: Living With Epilepsy - Youth

6 yr old with issues of seizures

05/2008 | 5 Comments

Back in January my 6 year old had a seizure at 3:00 am. This was horrifying to see my child go through. He was in the hospital for 2 days. His MRI and...
Can Epilapsy in children be cure ?

05/2008 | 8 Comments

I am also a father of a 3 years old very cute and innocent daughter having the same disease. When she was of 6 month’s old, she first got the fit...
VNS

04/2008 | 12 Comments

My daughter's neuro has been suggesting we try a vns for her since her seizures are hard to control. She said there is about a 50% chance that it...
3 year old on Keppra

04/2008 | 16 Comments

My 3 year old has been on Keppra for over a year and it seems like her outburst get worse! I don't know if it is her being her 3 year old INDEPENDENT...
Fructose corn syrup trigger seizures

04/2008 | 1 Comments

My son is on 400 mg of Topamax. Last week he had 3 CP at school, after lunch. Yesterday he had another one ("Bad one" as he puts it) in the morning...
dating

04/2008 | 5 Comments

i'm very good at find the right man but because of my depression with epilepsy, i'm having trouble to hang onto him. how do i overcome this. epilepsy...
Tardive Dyskenesia

04/2008 | 0 Comments

My teenage daughter has been living with refractory epilepsy for eleven years; in addition, she was diagnosed with major depressive disorder three...
Keppra

04/2008 | 3 Comments

My son committed suicide after being on Keppra for 6 months. From the start his behavior/drastically changed. Has this happened to anyone you know?
504 and Benign Rolandic Epilepsy

04/2008 | 1 Comments

My 11 year old daughter has Benign Rolandic Epilepsy. She is on depakote and celexa. She is now in the fifth grade and we have noticed that over the...
Are you kidding me?

04/2008 | 6 Comments

As a mom of a son with Epilepsy, I do everything in my power to help my son live as "normal" a life as possible... I'm constantly researching...
Multiple choice tests and epilepsy

04/2008 | 1 Comments

My daughter was diagnosed with epilepsy almost two years ago, during her first semester in college. In high school she was an "A" student in a full IB...
absence / declining meds

03/2008 | 2 Comments

my daughter is 8 and has had absence seizures since she was 5. This saturday she will start declining her depakote. If she does have a seizure it...
dealing with seizures in school

03/2008 | 4 Comments

so today i had a seizure in class. Im in college and I FREAKED out. I had no idea what to do. As soon it was over I got up and walked out. I have...
benine rolandic in children

03/2008 | 0 Comments

Hi, I have a 8 year old daughter who has had 6 seizures in the last year, She has been diaganosed with benine rolandic first one she slept through...
benine rolandic in children

03/2008 | 2 Comments

Hi, I have a 8 year old daughter who has had 6 seizures in the last year, She has been diaganosed with benine rolandic first one she slept through...
Acid Reflux

03/2008 | 2 Comments

My nine year old son has BRE and has had horrible stomach pain and sometimes thinks he has to vomit. His pediatrician said it is acid reflux. Has...

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