I'm glad to have found y'all!
My family has a history of seizures - my grandfather died in his mid forties during what has been described as a "severe, foaming at the mouth " seizure.
Years later, my aunt ( his daughter) developed seizures upon entering menopause.
A few years ago, my brother developed seizures with the onset of puberty.
Now my son, age 12, is starting to have them.
My brother was sent to neurologists, and it looks like epilepsy is not the culprit, but migraines are.
However, the seizures were treated with Dilantin, and my brother's seizures stopped around age 20 ( he's now 43).
My son still has night terrors at this age, and now the seizures. If he eats migraine trigger foods ( chocolate, bananas, hard cheese, etc) he is just about guaranteed to have a seizure ( and it takes him at least a day to recover).
so...... that's why I'm here.
:hello:
My family has a history of seizures - my grandfather died in his mid forties during what has been described as a "severe, foaming at the mouth " seizure.
Years later, my aunt ( his daughter) developed seizures upon entering menopause.
A few years ago, my brother developed seizures with the onset of puberty.
Now my son, age 12, is starting to have them.
My brother was sent to neurologists, and it looks like epilepsy is not the culprit, but migraines are.
However, the seizures were treated with Dilantin, and my brother's seizures stopped around age 20 ( he's now 43).
My son still has night terrors at this age, and now the seizures. If he eats migraine trigger foods ( chocolate, bananas, hard cheese, etc) he is just about guaranteed to have a seizure ( and it takes him at least a day to recover).
so...... that's why I'm here.
:hello:
