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I'm new here... HI! My name is, Brianna and my DD Isabelle is living with epilepsy. I really don't know how to classify them all to you (the seizures) but the first big one was like you see on TV. She had three of those within a month and lost her ability to talk. She communicated with animal noises after that and we went through speech therapy. It was horrid. We thought we were in the clear but the seizures, I guess, have always been going on. We've since been schooled in what to look for but this is a new symptom that may or may not be seizure related.
About a year ago she started to vomit every now and then while sleeping, right before she fell asleep or as she was waking up in the morning. We thought she was allergic to something so we cut her diet down, kept food journals and reintroduced foods. She never had a fever with these vomit spells and seemed fine, other than very tired and would sleep after puking. But who doesn't feel exhausted after puking?
Anyways, so she does this about every month or so. It stopped for a while over the summer, but then started back up so maybe she didn't vomit like that 3 months out of all of last year. It has happened every week since the week before Christmas, now, though. And it doesn't end. We chalked it up to potty training and maybe she is constipated but even getting her on a laxative to move things along hasn't helped and the timing of the vomiting (in her sleep) has been the biggest concern. She has literally been vomiting in her sleep and wakes up choking. We've propped her up on pillows now and I sleep with her (have since she had her first seizure, it's a habit now and I can't let her go) but really... I am trying to find a solution/answer/cause to this and just didn't know what else to do. She does not have the flu, is not sick and jerks a lot in her sleep but I'm still new to this seizure thing and have no idea what's simply a kid jerking in her sleep Vs. a kid having a seizure while sleeping.
Any insight or information on vomiting and seizures would be helpful. I'm sorry for this long drawn out post.
About a year ago she started to vomit every now and then while sleeping, right before she fell asleep or as she was waking up in the morning. We thought she was allergic to something so we cut her diet down, kept food journals and reintroduced foods. She never had a fever with these vomit spells and seemed fine, other than very tired and would sleep after puking. But who doesn't feel exhausted after puking?
Anyways, so she does this about every month or so. It stopped for a while over the summer, but then started back up so maybe she didn't vomit like that 3 months out of all of last year. It has happened every week since the week before Christmas, now, though. And it doesn't end. We chalked it up to potty training and maybe she is constipated but even getting her on a laxative to move things along hasn't helped and the timing of the vomiting (in her sleep) has been the biggest concern. She has literally been vomiting in her sleep and wakes up choking. We've propped her up on pillows now and I sleep with her (have since she had her first seizure, it's a habit now and I can't let her go) but really... I am trying to find a solution/answer/cause to this and just didn't know what else to do. She does not have the flu, is not sick and jerks a lot in her sleep but I'm still new to this seizure thing and have no idea what's simply a kid jerking in her sleep Vs. a kid having a seizure while sleeping.
Any insight or information on vomiting and seizures would be helpful. I'm sorry for this long drawn out post.
good luck !!