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Topic: Living With Epilepsy - Youth

Epilepsy From Premature Birth??

04/2006 | 7 Comments

My 10yr old son has frontal lobe epilepsy - I met someone the other day who had childhood epilepsy and she said that her dr told her mother that it...
need info on benign rolandic epilepsy

04/2006 | 12 Comments

My daughter was diagnosed with benign rolandic epilepsy at the age of 7. She went seizure free for 18 months and then had clusters of seizures for...
I have a question

04/2006 | 3 Comments

OK now I would like some insite on this. I dont have Epilepsy so Im not sure what it feels like but my daughter who is 9 does. She can be feeling...
Are there any teens here?

04/2006 | 22 Comments

From what i've seen, there's only adults here. I'm 17 and i'd like to find someone near my age to look around for.
trying to save my son

04/2006 | 1 Comments

My 8yr old son has medically intractable epilepsy, spastic quadriplegia and dyskinetic cerebal palsy secondarty to perinatal hypozic eschemic...
FEBRILE SEIZURES/EPILEPSY

04/2006 | 2 Comments

OK...MY SON JUST TURNED 2 TWO WEEKS AGO. HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH EPILEPSY BY AN EEG THAT TURNED OUT ABNORMAL. THE NORTHERN HEMPISPHERE OF HIS BRAIN...
FEBRILE SEIZURES/EPILEPSY

04/2006 | 1 Comments

OK...MY SON JUST TURNED 2 TWO WEEKS AGO. HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH EPILEPSY BY AN EEG THAT TURNED OUT ABNORMAL. THE NORTHERN HEMPISPHERE OF HIS BRAIN...
Finally found out bout my sons seizures

03/2006 | 5 Comments

i posted a story about my 5 year old son having absent seizures afew months ago, i was awaiting at the time on results of his sleep-deprived E.E.G...
Depakote ER

03/2006 | 5 Comments

My son was 8 when he had a seizure. He was in computer class at the time that it happened. He was seen at Children's Hospital and they found no reason...
Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy

03/2006 | 6 Comments

Hello, Please excuse me if I sound like I don't know what I'm talking about. I don't. The possibility of epilepsy in our family has just very recently...
accident during seizures

02/2006 | 4 Comments

Hello, My four year old son had a staring seizure tonight, but this time he wet his pants (which he never does anymore) has anyone heard of this...
19 months old and onto a 5th medicine

02/2006 | 11 Comments

My 19th month old son was diagnosed with epilepsy at two weeks of age. We have no family history, there is no known source for the seizures...
Is it Meds? or Is it my child?

02/2006 | 20 Comments

My daughter is 9 years old, she has absent and partial seizures. She is on Lamictal and Depakote.. We are having a tough time in school. She is not...
Lamictal Issues

02/2006 | 3 Comments

Hello All: My 14 year old daughter has been taking Lamictal for nearly two years now. Her present dose is 600 mgs of Lamictal daily plus 500 mgs of...
why me

02/2006 | 1 Comments

So I have had seizers since I was in grade 8 ( 5 Years ago ) And Everyone treats me diffrent...My dad has changed his attitude towards me ..All my...
My sons absense symptoms

02/2006 | 3 Comments

i have a 5 year old son who is in the process of been diagnosed with absense seizures. he will shortly be put on medication. his symptoms are cramps...
Doosesyndrome

01/2006 | 6 Comments

There was a mother on here who child has doosesyndrome but I can't remember who it was. Sorry...rotten memory! I found a link to a support group that...
Confused

01/2006 | 4 Comments

My daughter was diagnosed with epilepsy last fall. The doctors had previously diagnosed her with depression and we dealt with that for a little over a...

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