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Q: 14 Yrs 3 Months Daughter W/epilepsy
asked by: Terry Dunahoe on January 19th, 2004
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At age 12 years 6 months my daughter had a seizure. The days following the seizure she was sick/nauseated would have hot flashes followed by nausea and throwing up. Cat scans showed nothing wrong. Given depacote for one year/no other episodes. Taken off depacote and on august after being taken off depacote/had another seizure/again nothing found on cat scan/given tegratol. Had another seizure in dec. 03. Dr. Said that the level of medicine may not have been high enough to work causing the most recent seizure. Now for the past six weeks for about
every two weeks she becomes nauseated and throws up. This lasts for a day or two and she seems fine. All of her episodes are upon waking up.
We give her plenty of time to get up and get going in the morning waking her up very slowly. She has hand and arm tremors on a regular basis.
Could all of this be harmone related. She had her fist period sept 11, 2003. My mother said that after she had her first period as a teenager, she did not have another one for over a year and during that year, she had what she described a migraine headaches.
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sami_1982
replied on January 20th, 2004
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Hello :)
Hello there
sound to me as if your daughter has myoclonic epilepsy. I dont know if I spelt it correctly.
I am 21 and when I was younger I would feel so tired I would go to bed and my entire body would jerk 1 time. My doctors said it was only because my body was tired before my brain. But it would happen alot. I would have finger twitching. Just things that I though everyone else had. Then all day at different times I would get like a hot feeling all over and I would do a silly shake that lasted maybe 5 seconds and be gone. Like the feeling you get and ppl say oh someone walked ober your grave kinda thing. Now 3 months ago I had a massive grandmal seizure lasting over 40 minutes I was taken to the accident and emergency department and they said I had an acute reaction to anxiety and stress. I wasnt stressed I didnt know what happened. I was sent home in the care of my partner and I slept for 2 days only being woken for food and drinks. Since that I went to a neurologist they couldnt find anything wrong with me either normal ct ,eeg,ecg nothing abnormal. Except for stress lines over my eeg. I am on tegretol now
the doctors found that I am a temporal lobe epileptic , when I was 8 yrs old I cracked my head open and they say thats why I have it now later in life.
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