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Suggestions please Natural Remedies vs Medication
Mon, 10/09/2017 - 20:44Topic: Parents & Caregivers
My 10 y.o son started having seizures again back in Feb 2016 after taking Tamiflu. He has localized seizures that occur early AM 5-7 and sometimes wakes up with left sided weakness. The doctor stated it was Todd’s Paralysis. He was put back on Keppra in Feb 2016. We have had CT scans, MRI’s 24 hr EEG’s everything comes back normal. They have even done a carotid artery study to r/o stroke due to the paralysis. Thank God it was negative. I’ve switched doctors since aug of 2016 since then we have been on Keppra changed bc of dizziness. Tried lamictal back in aug 2017 stopped that bc he started getting fine bumps and c/o itiching was afraid of the possibility of SJS. So we started Zonegran in sept 2017 we were on it for about 4 weeks then he started c/o headaches, stomach cramps, loss appetite, occasional diarrhea. I was just wondering how much is too much to switch meds soo often? Is there anything I can do naturally to help far as diets, supplements etc. We were seizure free 5 years up until we took the Tamiflu in Feb 2016. When he was 2 he stared with febrile seizures then they occurred w/o fever. We were on Keppra for about a 1 1/2 years before tapering off and being seizure free. I just don’t want my son to be on medication for the rest of his life and I am claiming a seizure free med free life. I’ll take any suggestions.
Comments
Agree with Amy Jo. I would go
Submitted by RTLEmum on Tue, 2017-10-31 - 14:21
Agree with Amy Jo. I would go to a Level 4 Epilepsy Center and try to get to the bottom of what is going on. Those centers tend to be the ones who know how to do the keto or modified atkins diet if you want to try that.
NATURAL REMEDY IS DIFFER FROM
Submitted by elissawilliams on Fri, 2017-11-10 - 06:30
NATURAL REMEDY IS DIFFER FROM NOW A DAYS MEDICINE...So it is better to treat your son in a medicine condition. Because natural remedies is very powerful and it will followed in a perfect way. If you discard the procedure then it will affects your son health. SO try to take the medicine treatment.
Are you working with an
Submitted by Amy Jo on Tue, 2017-10-10 - 01:47
Are you working with an epileptologist. I feel like a broken record but seeing an epileptologist is associated with better seizure control and fewer medications. Bummer about the rash, my child does pretty well on lamotrigine (generic for lamictal). We've tried three medications overall. The first drug we tried is just for partials and has a good side effect profile, it's trileptal. Our child did great on that, except the part where it didn't totally control the partial seizures even on very high doses (partials were much reduced), and later our child was also on lamotrigine when we found there were generalized seizures that it controlled so we dropped trileptal. saw pretty much the same control on just one drug and it needed to be a drug that treats both partials and generalized seizures. Our pediatrician asked if diet therapy might be appropriate but keto isn't workable and some other less intense ratio diet would probably be hard for our child, your options might differ from ours so ask about diet therapy.