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My son is six year old and his seizures are rapidly becomming worse.

Post a new topicby livingwith on Fri Apr 11, 2008 4:51 pm

My six year old son was diagnosed with asthma at 7 months. I thought living with that was bad enough. Starting in preschool, the teachers would tell me that he was spacing out or daydreaming every now and then. I would get after him about it and tell him that school is important and he should pay attention.
At the begining of his first grade year it became worse. No matter what I said to him or how much T.V. I took from him, he wouldn’t improve. Finally, ADD was brought up and was ...Read the full article
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Re: My son is six year old and his seizures are rapidly becommin

Post a new topicby 2 seizure infants on Thu Jun 05, 2008 3:17 pm

I was researching seizures and epilepsy in regards to my own situation, and I came across some information that reminded me of reading your story. My daughter is two days into taking the drug Keppra, which is very new to me. She has begun having seizures that seem to run in our family for no apparent reason.
Anyway, I was on the website for the drug, (Keppra.com) and in the kids topics there is a mention of a surgery that has been performed on over 8,000 epileptic patients in some 50 years. I'm not sure if your son would fit the profile of someone to receive the surgery, but I thought that giving you the info to look into it may lead to a solution for you.
I wish you luck in finding relief for your son. Your family will be in our thoughts and prayers.
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