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Having after effects of a seizure days later, is it normal?
Mon, 01/19/2015 - 18:44Sorry, for the blank post earlier, extremely new to seizures and the website. My daughter had two tonic clonic seizures one on Thursday night and one Friday as well as many absence seizures before and after, she was hospitalized and had many tests done in the hospital. She was finally released Sunday after what it seemed was 24 hours of being seizure free. I'm not actually sure if that was true though because the abscence seizures are so hard to point out when a child is staring at a tv all day. She had another absence seizure as soon as she got home, but the doctors said to wait it out and she should be back to her normal self soon. I'm concerned because I see several personality changes as well as some hyperactivity she didn't have before, I was wondering if this could be something that is still due to the seizures and could possibly wear off, or if it's the "new her" as some people have put it?
You posted she was
Submitted by just_joe on Tue, 2015-01-20 - 10:27
You posted she was hospitalized and tested. If it was done by the ER then those doctors may not have known everything they need to know about epilepsy and seizures. If she saw a neurologist specializing in epilepsy then fine, There are 2 main tests to find out if she has epilepsy. One is an EEG the other is a MRI. If it were my child I would be wanting to take her to a epileptiologist and discuss this issue. A person can have back to back seizures which are cluster seizures and there are medications that stop the clusters. There are other seizures which look like absence seizures that aren't absence seizures. A focal seizure will look like one unless it generalizes. If the focal seizure generalizes it then looks like a grand mal seizure. Been there done that Oh and focal seizures are now being called partial seizures. Some people in here try to correct me when I post focal seizure. The reason is I was diagnosed before they specialized. That was when they came up with types of epilepsy and types of seizures. I hope this helps and she gets the assistance she needs. Joe