kelly marshall, 8 months [Offensive? Unsuitable? Report this comment.]

i just keep going over in my head why it took so long to diagnose him and they started before he was 7 months old and i kept getting fobbed off ie over protective first time mum he was only diagnosed at 2yrs 7 months! yet i am lucky now as we have a wonderfull doctor at last that trys her best and often out of her way to help.

kelly marshall, 8 months [Offensive? Unsuitable? Report this comment.]

this article would of been very interesting to me if it had compleate information my son has onil just turned three and i get a feeling when he is going to fit but have no idea how to expand on this.

Chris R, 11 months [Offensive? Unsuitable? Report this comment.]

I am a male aged 43. I had febrile convulsions between the ages of 2 to 5 years old. I had a seisure free period for nearly two years. At the age of seven, having been free of seisures, whilst playing with my sister in the garden, I fell over and fractured the Patella. My father refused to beleive that I had done anything serious and made me walk on it. Later in the night, I had a massive Tonic-clonic seisure, ending up in hospital, where the fracture to the Patella was discovered and both of the conditions treated. I was prescribed Phenytol (Phenobabitone) at the level of 100mg per day. I had no further seisures, then by accident, 4 years later, it was discovered that I was only supposed to have been on that dosage for a year and then weened off, to see if there was a threshold. I was successfully weened of the drug. I was then 11 years old by the time the last dose was taken. The Director for whom I worked was particularly agressive and placed me under a lot of pressure. I was placed on a "man management course" which later turned out to be one of these psycological play type seminars where a group of you act out situations. In my case the particular situation triggered a flash-back to an incident that I had with a relationship that broke up and I burst in to tears and later was depressed for a condiserable amount of time. I redeveloped the condition nine months after that course at the age of 35 having a Tonic Clonic , Statuts Epilepticus seisure at work, then another a month later. When the blood tests were taken at the A&E, they showed an excess of serratonin. The question lies two fold: 1. Is it likely that the stress created by the Manager triggered the original seisure. 2. Are you aware of these "Role play" type management courses which affect peoples emotions, and can those events trigger epilepsy, following a significant break in events; or as a trigger at first instance. On an other area of the condition, since I am on 2.5Grammes of Keppra, 500mg of Lamotrogine , and 500 Microgrammes of Clonazepalm, would this affect my sperm count, lowering the possibility of my wife to conceive? Also would the fact that I have a history of epilepsy both as a child and now os an adult, mean that the condition can be passed on to a foteous at conception, i.e. can the condition become genetically encoded and therefore be passed from one generation to the next? Your advice would be appreciated. Yours faithfully Christopher Richards