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Is My Daughter Epileptic? Posted: 12-01-05 18:51pm
I am new so please bare with my simplistic
questions.
My daughter is 21 years old. When she
was living with her boyfriend 2 years ago,
they did alot of meth (speed). She went
into a seizure (grand mal from what I
understand) was taken to the hospital.
Tests came back inconclusive. I did not
witness this. She has since moved in
with me. She has had 3 grand mal
seizures since january, 3-5 minutes long.
She has done speed ocassionaly but quit
over 3 months ago. I contributed speed
and her diet to her seizures. She had no
problems from april until oct.31. She
had her last seizure. After being off
speed for 2 months. Now she has
"blackouts"? She will be talking and
then her face drops.It lasts between 3/7
seconds and is happening more and more.
Is a blackout a "fit"? Are blood tests
pointless?- go straight to a
nueroligist?
The reasons I ask is because I must pay
for services rendered. Med ins. Is not
a option at this time. Please note my
daughter is my life.
Thanks
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kayakmom
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Posted: 12-01-05 20:47pm
I am so sorry this is happening with your
daughter. Drug use can cause seizures but
there can also be an ongoing problem. I
am not sure what tests they did when she
had her first seizure....
I really recommend getting her to a
neurologist and letting him run tests like
an eeg to see if he can figure what is
going on.
Those blackouts could be seizures (there
are over 20 different kinds of seizures),
but only the doctor can tell you for sure.
They are a concern anyway!
I really hope you can get her help!
Hoping she will stay away from speed now
for good as well!
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SALM1208
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 2 Location: INLAND EMPIRE, CA.
Posted: 12-01-05 21:16pm
Kayakmom,
thank you for your reply.
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sami_1982
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 13 Dec 2003 Posts: 200 Location: Australia
Salm Posted: 12-12-05 00:43am
Dear friend,
drug use can cause seizures, it can also
bring out something that has been lying
dormant in the brain for so long. Its a
well known fact that mental disorders can
be caused by drugs ( chemical imbalences
in the brain) it does sound like to me
that your daughter has some kind of
epilepsy. Is she on any medication for
this. I mean stopping her drug addiction
is a good thing, but now it could have
left a mark behind on her brain. Just
because she has had grand mal type
seizures in the past from drug use. Now
her main problem sounds like petit mal
seizures. They are the ones where you
loose facial tone and you go pale blank
outs. Then you go on with what you were
doing before. If she is having alot of
them now. Keep a diary from now till you
can get in to a neurologist, write down
her menstural cycle also, see if they are
more frequent before or after or during
that time of the month. These are all
things that I have had to do. I have not
long come out of hospital myself from
having a one week stay at a neurology
hospital for extensive video eeg
monitoring. Its well worth it. If you
have documented times and dates and the
length of time they lasted and what they
resembeled. The seizures. Also with the
face drop type, ( petit mal ) you can have
up to 100 per day they last seconds. And
can go un noticed for years.
Hope this helps you out.
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