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Topic: Parents & Caregivers

nerveous about choices

01/2006 | 1 Comments

HI my daughter Kyla started having seizures at 11weeks old she is now almost 3 and We have tried 6 different meds, and are currently weing off the...
EEG Results

01/2006 | 5 Comments

Hi: My bright and beautiful (he'd hate me to use that word...he'd prefer cool), 8 year old son was diagnosed w/E on 12/19/05 (so this is sonew to us!)...
Infantile Spasms

01/2006 | 30 Comments

My son Tommy was diagnosed with Infantile spasms at 5 months old. We noticed "twitches" that our pediatrician told us may be primal reflexes. After a...
Has anyone had success with medication

01/2006 | 14 Comments

My son is 15 and just started Lamictal. (First med treatment/started seizures approx 1 month ago) I have been reading a lot re: Lamictal and Epilepsy...
Question about my boys

01/2006 | 1 Comments

Hi, I was recently diagnosed with epilepsy. My seizures occur mainly in my sleep. But then I was told it could be hereditary. Anyone have experience...
Confused

01/2006 | 1 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...
ADHD behavior, and vanishing seizures

01/2006 | 3 Comments

Hi I’m new here, looks like a great place for information. My 5 and a half year old daughter has had petite mal seizures since she was 3. She has...
6 year old son seizure

01/2006 | 4 Comments

Just before Christmas my 6 year old son had an apparent seizure. He was sitting in his AWANA class. His head was on his desk & he was drooling. At...
Seizures connected with behavior issues?

01/2006 | 29 Comments

Hi, I'm new here and still working with a preliminary diagnosis for my 6yo son. His neurologist says he's having complex partial seizures and we're...
Seizure Protocol at school

01/2006 | 15 Comments

Does anyone here have a teen who has tonic clonic seizures and therefore requires Diastat at school? If so, do you have a seizure protocol/plan of...
post seizure Vomiting

01/2006 | 19 Comments

Hello...I am new to this site...my son may have petite mal seizures....since finding out that this may be true, we have been noticing a few things...
Sometimes I feel drained, Do you?

12/2005 | 10 Comments

I'm the mother of a child who has battled seizures since she was 10 months old. At first I didn't noticed the signs of a seizure oncoming. But as time...
Toxic from AED meds

12/2005 | 0 Comments

My 16-year-old daughter has been lethargic and feeling very poorly for 7 weeks. Sleeps 15 hours per day and unable to attend high school. Doctor...
NEONATAL SEIZURES. ARE YOU SURE?

12/2005 | 3 Comments

I am a physician with no previous expertise in epilepsy. Here, I am only given a personal testimony as a parent and not as a clinician. I am making no...

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