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Hello,
I'm looking for some direction, as I'm currently quite concerned that my 7 year old son, Quin, is having simple/complex partial seizures.
About a year ago, he started coming into my room at night, sobbing and inconsolable. He would be wide-eyed and often had his hand clamped over his mouth, and his expression wasn't one that he'd ever made before ... It was physically him standing there, but his eyes were blank and his face was just different. About a minute later, he'd "come back" to reality and would go back to bed without much fuss. This happened about three times (twice at my house, and once at his Dad's), and he started occasionally wetting the bed around that time also. We all assumed that it was him sleepwalking, as he's always been a "crazy sleeper" and often wakes up in random places in his bed and room. He's also always exhausted during the day and has memory/attention problems. The strange thing is that he could remember the episodes and would always mention that "a weird thing" always happened before it, and he would feel himself shrinking and the room would get bigger and bigger. From then on, he referred to it as the "weird thing" and would occasionally mention it happening without a sleepwalking episode.
Fast forward to this past week .... He got the flu and had a low-grade fever. While at his Dad's house, he climbed up the ladder into his brother's top bunk and his brother said that Quin was "holding his mouth tightly and reaching for things with his other hand in the dark." He said that he was crying and totally not himself. Again, after a minute or so, he was back to normal and went back to sleep. The next day he was back at my house, still with a fever, and laid down for a nap beside me. After being deeply asleep for almost an hour, he sat up, sobbing and totally disoriented. He wouldn't answer me, and only held his hand tightly over his right eye and kept saying "I can't see!" I removed his hand and he was looking around frantically and yelling that his eye was blurry and he couldn't see out of it. I wrapped a blanket around him and laid him back down, and, again, he came out of it suddenly and asked to watch a movie. He remembered the episode and said that the "weird thing" happened (the shrinking feeling) and then he was blind in one eye, and then it went away.
Throughout the rest of the day, he would lie down to rest (still having the flu) and twice said "Mom, the weird thing is happening," and then it would go away.
For the past two days, he hasn't told us about anything happening, and seems to be back to normal. His Dad's girlfriend had epilepsy as a child and mentioned that she knew what he meant by the shrinking feeling (know I know it as micropsia). My son's Dad thinks it's nothing more than sleepwalking, and thinks I'm over reacting.
Does this sound like something you've ever dealt with? If he doesn't have any more episodes, should I even bother getting him checked out? Also, he has a Dx of Chronic Tic Disorder, and has had facial and finger tics for the past three years. Not sure if that's connected or not. I really don't want to stress him out with tests if it's nothing to worry about. Please help! Thanks in advance!
I'm looking for some direction, as I'm currently quite concerned that my 7 year old son, Quin, is having simple/complex partial seizures.
About a year ago, he started coming into my room at night, sobbing and inconsolable. He would be wide-eyed and often had his hand clamped over his mouth, and his expression wasn't one that he'd ever made before ... It was physically him standing there, but his eyes were blank and his face was just different. About a minute later, he'd "come back" to reality and would go back to bed without much fuss. This happened about three times (twice at my house, and once at his Dad's), and he started occasionally wetting the bed around that time also. We all assumed that it was him sleepwalking, as he's always been a "crazy sleeper" and often wakes up in random places in his bed and room. He's also always exhausted during the day and has memory/attention problems. The strange thing is that he could remember the episodes and would always mention that "a weird thing" always happened before it, and he would feel himself shrinking and the room would get bigger and bigger. From then on, he referred to it as the "weird thing" and would occasionally mention it happening without a sleepwalking episode.
Fast forward to this past week .... He got the flu and had a low-grade fever. While at his Dad's house, he climbed up the ladder into his brother's top bunk and his brother said that Quin was "holding his mouth tightly and reaching for things with his other hand in the dark." He said that he was crying and totally not himself. Again, after a minute or so, he was back to normal and went back to sleep. The next day he was back at my house, still with a fever, and laid down for a nap beside me. After being deeply asleep for almost an hour, he sat up, sobbing and totally disoriented. He wouldn't answer me, and only held his hand tightly over his right eye and kept saying "I can't see!" I removed his hand and he was looking around frantically and yelling that his eye was blurry and he couldn't see out of it. I wrapped a blanket around him and laid him back down, and, again, he came out of it suddenly and asked to watch a movie. He remembered the episode and said that the "weird thing" happened (the shrinking feeling) and then he was blind in one eye, and then it went away.
Throughout the rest of the day, he would lie down to rest (still having the flu) and twice said "Mom, the weird thing is happening," and then it would go away.
For the past two days, he hasn't told us about anything happening, and seems to be back to normal. His Dad's girlfriend had epilepsy as a child and mentioned that she knew what he meant by the shrinking feeling (know I know it as micropsia). My son's Dad thinks it's nothing more than sleepwalking, and thinks I'm over reacting.
Does this sound like something you've ever dealt with? If he doesn't have any more episodes, should I even bother getting him checked out? Also, he has a Dx of Chronic Tic Disorder, and has had facial and finger tics for the past three years. Not sure if that's connected or not. I really don't want to stress him out with tests if it's nothing to worry about. Please help! Thanks in advance!