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Topic: Parents & Caregivers

I'm new...need some info please..

10/2006 | 2 Comments

Hi Everyone, I'm new here. I'm Karla and I've got a 7 year old daughter with a seizure disorder, migraines,and Tourettes. She's had seizures since...
Can someone explain auras

10/2006 | 1 Comments

My 5 year old has benign occipital childhood epilepsy (BOCE). A sympton a child with BOCE may feel before a seizure is the feeling of nausea or...
To those from Fort Worth Support Group

10/2006 | 0 Comments

I would like to apologize for having to bring our son to the meeting tonight. I know he is a handful, and that time of night is his worst time of the...
epilepsy alarms

10/2006 | 7 Comments

Hi, My name is Shelly and I'm fairly new to this forum. I've replied to a couple about Keppra and now have a question....Looking for any one that has...
Good news finally !

10/2006 | 1 Comments

I finally got my daughter Jessie scheduled to see an epileptologist at the local teaching hospital on November 9. After explaining everything going on...
Im new, here is my story...

10/2006 | 7 Comments

I have a beautiful baby girl. So calm, and sweet. Our last child of three. She turned 1 a couple of weeks ago. On Friday, I looked over at her in her...
Seizures changing does that happen???

09/2006 | 11 Comments

I am trying to figure this out..my daughter Emily Klair is 3 1/2 years old and has had absence and drop seizures we just found out that they were...
shrink or no shrink is the Question

09/2006 | 7 Comments

I havent been up on the board in well over a month of sundays. My daugher is in 9th grade this year and it's kicking her butt. she has i dont care...
Absence Siezures and Behavioral Problems

09/2006 | 6 Comments

My son(now 10)was diagnosed with absence siezures in Dec.2005. He is now taking Depakote. His teacher is telling me that he is much slower than all...
behavior changes

09/2006 | 3 Comments

My 6 yr.ld son has recently been diagnosed with generalized idiopathis ep. He has absence and Grand Mal seizurtes. We are taking Trileptal and...
New! 3yr old son with complex partial!

09/2006 | 6 Comments

My story as I look back is frightening. My son had a seizure about three and a half weeks ago and it lasted 45 minutes long! It took them three doses...
teenager

09/2006 | 2 Comments

I have a teen daughter, and lately she has complained her stomach is sensitive to eating foods, also she has been very moody, I think its teenager...
No one realized it was seizures...

09/2006 | 11 Comments

I don't know what to say, I am consumed in guilt right now. My precious girl has been having seizures for God knows HOW long, and no one knew. It took...
Parent needs help with Son

09/2006 | 1 Comments

I have problem with my son I’m unable to get help for himself. He is 33 years old. He not able to hold a job the reason he thinks he is always right...

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