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I think this last one was an absence seizure...

Wed, 08/09/2006 - 19:15
My son was watching pbs while in his playpen while I was doing dishes and I noticed that he was staring at the tv.while standing...I didn't think much of it until I noticed he was wobbly and sat.I went in to see if he was ok and he seemed out of it and his left arm was twitching a bit.I was talking to him and he wasn't reponding like he normally does.So I picked him up and asked my hubby what he thought.We noticed that he was smileing in a digital manner...and his left arm was still moving.I decided to give him his diastat and laid him down.He tried to crawl a bit,fussed and picked up my husbands belt and began doing repedtive motion to and from his mouth with it.I gave him the meds and waited for the seizure to end.The seizure took 7 minutes to stop.Some of his huge seizures ended faster than that with his diastat.Was this an absence seizure..I am stilltrying to figure out how manydifferent kinds of seizures he is having.It is so hard when they are too young to tell you.I just want the neurologist to give him the right diagnoses.Is that something that he can do strictly from the EEG results?I can't believe another one and different from the others.help me cope.I just feel like crying everytime I think of this.

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