Your brother is right, I like that phrase.
Once you get this way of life down and are ready for more info let me know I
can help you with other avenues as well.
You have taken the most important step so far, your open and trying...Kepp up
the good work.

Gina

Heather <heatherathome2005@...> wrote:
Thank you, she has been on this (I hate to call it diet) it is just
eating the way we were meant to eat, for two days. I have lowered
her dose of Topomax to 200mg per day and already I have noticed fewer
seizures.

I would much rather feed her right than pump her full of medicine.

My brother says "Sis, her body is not lacking in Topomax, it is
lacking in something else." I just keep that in mind while I go
through this process.

--- In ketokids@yahoogroups.com, Gina Kopera <ginakopera1@...> wrote:
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> Follow you instinct, as the old saying goes nothing ventured
nothing gain. You can always go back to where you started from.
> I know when we did the Keto it was more like the Atkin and my
did my son system ever work better. You will see some sort of results
from anything you do and try, just keep searching, you will be glad
you did....
>
> Gina
>
> heatherathome2005 <heatherathome2005@...> wrote:
> I have found this site very informative and I thank everyone for
> sharing. My daughter is 9 and was diagnosed with absence seizures
a
> year ago. She is on her second medication ~ Topomax. She takes
400
> mg daily and is still having seizures. I decided to stop the
> medication and am researching Keto and Atkins.
>
> Keto seems very intense. I am wondering if the Atkins diet is just
> as beneficial in controlling these types of seizures.
>
> If anyone has any tips, please let me know. I would like to bypass
> the starvation and hospital stay if at all possible.
>
> Also, is just stopping her medication okay? Her Dr. at UCSF (who
is
> wonderful by the way) doesn't even entertain the thought of
stopping
> medication, he just suggests upping the dose and/or switching meds,
> so I am on my own I guess.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Heather
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