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On Sat, 29 Jan 2000 20:17:43 teddythekid wrote:
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>My 11 year old daughter has started having seizures every night as she
>goes to sleep, as well as when she wakes in the morning. This also
>occurs during her naptime. These start wiyh twitching and arm and leg
>jerking and then
>go into full body rocking. Have any of you experienced the same and
>can you explain a bit about it to me to help me understand?
>This has been going on for a month.
>Previous seizures in her life have not been at such predictable times.
>Thanks,
>Ted
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______________________________________________________________________Dear Ted,

My mom sometimes has those kind of seizures if her doctor changes her medication
or if she has been sick. If you have severe epilepsy, like Kathryn has,
sometimes when you are sick, your brain sometimes puts out more electricity,
causing some seizures, mainly petit-mal seizures. Petit-Mal seizures can occur
more than once a day. When I used to have those kinds of seizures, I used to
have up to 9 a day, even though they were small. I also jerked like I was
having a bigger seizure, and became tired afterward because of all the energy
used while in the seizure. I would advise you to take her to the doctor and
see if she is having too much electric activity, and that way she can either be
put on a monitoring machine (they make some for people with epilepsy, my mom has
one) or try some therapy work on the brain. It may be that right now, she's
just going through a stage where she is having seizures during sleeping times.
If you need any more help, just e-mail me anytime.

Sincerely,
Jessie Gray
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