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Just wondering if anyone with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (especially right sided) has even had, or heard of, someone having one sided facial weakness.
My 3 year old daughter has TLE, and was just put on meds mid september (clobazam) after a cluster of complex partials. Had a couple of complex partials since then but under pretty good control for the most part.
Then last week she had a speech assessment and they realized she seemed to have some right sided facial weakness (her focus on he EEG has always been the right TL) and the left side was pulling up more than the right when she spoke and sometimes when she smiles. (She had this happen in November too for about 6 weeks and we didn't realize until it had been happening for quite awhile and then the pediatrician thought it was nerve inflammation and not neurological). Anyways our pediatrician has seen her and we are waiting on the EEG report, and will be ordering an MRI since it has been 2.5 years since her last one, but i was just curious if anyone else has seen this.
Also during her speech assessment, she was looking at a picture of a dog's nose and knew what it was (she pointed to her nose) but couldn't say the word-she did finally say it but there was quite a delay. Shortly after that episode, she was similarly unable to say the word white, although she knew she wanted to say it because she pointed to the speech pathologists white sweater. I know my pediatrician said there are two possibilities for this kind of behaviour-one where they are searching for the word but don't know it (which it seems this isn't) and one where they just physically aren't capable of saying the word.
Anyone ever had these experiences before?
My 3 year old daughter has TLE, and was just put on meds mid september (clobazam) after a cluster of complex partials. Had a couple of complex partials since then but under pretty good control for the most part.
Then last week she had a speech assessment and they realized she seemed to have some right sided facial weakness (her focus on he EEG has always been the right TL) and the left side was pulling up more than the right when she spoke and sometimes when she smiles. (She had this happen in November too for about 6 weeks and we didn't realize until it had been happening for quite awhile and then the pediatrician thought it was nerve inflammation and not neurological). Anyways our pediatrician has seen her and we are waiting on the EEG report, and will be ordering an MRI since it has been 2.5 years since her last one, but i was just curious if anyone else has seen this.
Also during her speech assessment, she was looking at a picture of a dog's nose and knew what it was (she pointed to her nose) but couldn't say the word-she did finally say it but there was quite a delay. Shortly after that episode, she was similarly unable to say the word white, although she knew she wanted to say it because she pointed to the speech pathologists white sweater. I know my pediatrician said there are two possibilities for this kind of behaviour-one where they are searching for the word but don't know it (which it seems this isn't) and one where they just physically aren't capable of saying the word.
Anyone ever had these experiences before?
