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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 149340" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p>I no longer have seizures, at least as far as I can tell. I haven't had one that I know of for about 25 years. My most common partial seizure affected my bowel. Fortunately for me there was a slight aura before the muscles relaxed, if you get my drift. How do I know it was a partial seizure? The day -- literally the <em>day</em> -- I started taking Dilantin for my grand mals, the bowel problem stopped. Logically, I was having a lot of the partial seizures prior to having the second grand mal which is when I got my diagnosis. My doctor fully expected that I would have fewer migraines but that didn't work out for me. </p><p></p><p>Now that my son is no longer taking other medications and his brain has healed, he rarely has any sort of seizure activity. Before all the medications, the activity was quite rare. It is again. I don't know if he still has those sensory hallucinations. He would only know if someone told him the sound/smell/taste he was experiencing wasn't there -- they're real to him. Now that I think about it, I'm not sure he has memory of those few seconds when he's hallucinating. He says something ("Why don't you answer the phone?", "Why does it smell like gas in here?", "This food is burned."), I respond ("It's not ringing", "I don't smell anything", "No, it's not"), he disagrees, then the conversation ends. When I try to restart it, he acts like it never happened. Maybe he has no memory of it. I remember the day he frantically sent me looking through the house for gas. I decided to check just in case there was an odor somewhere and I wasn't picking it up. By the time I returned to the room, he acted like he had no clue what I was talking about. </p><p></p><p><strong>susiestar</strong>: You're welcome. There are so many possibilities for why our children's brains don't work quite right.</p><p></p><p><strong>BestICan</strong>: Odd that your son is hyper after a seizure. We are the opposite -- sluggish and lethargic.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 149340, member: 1498"] I no longer have seizures, at least as far as I can tell. I haven't had one that I know of for about 25 years. My most common partial seizure affected my bowel. Fortunately for me there was a slight aura before the muscles relaxed, if you get my drift. How do I know it was a partial seizure? The day -- literally the [I]day[/I] -- I started taking Dilantin for my grand mals, the bowel problem stopped. Logically, I was having a lot of the partial seizures prior to having the second grand mal which is when I got my diagnosis. My doctor fully expected that I would have fewer migraines but that didn't work out for me. Now that my son is no longer taking other medications and his brain has healed, he rarely has any sort of seizure activity. Before all the medications, the activity was quite rare. It is again. I don't know if he still has those sensory hallucinations. He would only know if someone told him the sound/smell/taste he was experiencing wasn't there -- they're real to him. Now that I think about it, I'm not sure he has memory of those few seconds when he's hallucinating. He says something ("Why don't you answer the phone?", "Why does it smell like gas in here?", "This food is burned."), I respond ("It's not ringing", "I don't smell anything", "No, it's not"), he disagrees, then the conversation ends. When I try to restart it, he acts like it never happened. Maybe he has no memory of it. I remember the day he frantically sent me looking through the house for gas. I decided to check just in case there was an odor somewhere and I wasn't picking it up. By the time I returned to the room, he acted like he had no clue what I was talking about. [B]susiestar[/B]: You're welcome. There are so many possibilities for why our children's brains don't work quite right. [B]BestICan[/B]: Odd that your son is hyper after a seizure. We are the opposite -- sluggish and lethargic. [/QUOTE]
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