Re: [epilepsy] I am new. Please can I have some advice.

Christin,

Welcome to the group. I have complex partial seizures, which I have had had
for 40 years. They started after a head injury I had when I was a baby.I was
on Tegretol years ago, but they did nothing for my seizures. My neurologist
has me on Keppra XR and Vimpat now.Even though I have been on most of the
seizure medicine, I know they all have different kinds of side effects.I
hope the doctor can find some kind that your daughter can tolerate and
adjust to. Take care.

Tammy

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:41 PM, cristinfilipuzzi7 <
cristinfilipuzzi7@yahoo.ca> wrote:

>
>
> Hello everyone. My daugter was recently diagnosed with having epilepsy. My
> daughter is turing 12 next month. In January 2009, my daughter had a seizure
> for the first time, shortly after falling asleep. Luckily I was right beside
> her. It was very scary. Her face turned blue, purple along with her whole
> body shaking, foam at her mouth. She actually stopped breathing for a short
> time. And I could not feel a pulse. Shortly afterwards she was struggling to
> breath again. She makes this choking sound at the beggining as well. When
> the paramedics arrived her seizure was still not ended. They gave her an
> injection of medication and provided the air mask. Afterwards when she opens
> her eyes and looks around a bit, she cannot talk. When she is finally able
> to talk she starts screaming and crying. Then she is vomiting for hours,
> shaky, and lightheaded, sleeping alot.
>
> The folling day she had another one in the hospital.
>
> She was admitted for 2 days. And we had followups with the childrens
> nurologist. Her EEG shows that she has an abnormality in the left hemishpere
> of her brain which is triggering seizure activity. Mostly in the 2nd stage
> of sleep.
>
> She was not put on any medications. The doctor said that he wanted to wait
> and see if she would have anymore. Last Sunday at approx. 11:30pm it
> happened again. She had another one. Luckily I was right beside her again.
> We had a bad experience in the hospital, and she was sent home after waiting
> 10 hours with the paramedics beside her to see a doctor. A couple of hours
> later, she had another one.
>
> She had an MRI done. Which came back ok. The doctor wants to put her on
> Tegretol. He says that it is about 80% effective. There are many side
> effects. And I am very worried about this. I am really scared to give her
> this medication. The majority of medications cause so many other problems in
> your body. Does anyone know of any information that may help me.
> I really apprecieate it. Thankyou so much.
> Cristin Filipuzzi
>
>
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