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[quote=Anonymous]Hello friendly Moms & Dads - My son has recently (a month or so ago?) started to do this little series of involuntarily eye rolling and blinking. For example, at the dinner table, he will do it several times in a row. It doesn't bother him and there is no other obvious problem associated with it. We thought his hair was in his eyes for a while. I mentioned it to a friend who said her son did the same thing at the same age and she took him to the ER for CAT scans, MRIs, etc and nothing was wrong and it went away. But the Dr said it had to do with neurological development. I looked online and was relieved to see that alot of kids seem to do this and it does seem to go away. One (online) diagnosis was Benign paroxysmal tonic upgaze of childhood with ataxia (ataxia is motor loss and he does not have that). It seems harmless. But I also read that some form of epilepsy is *possible* Here is the problem and why I am asking "Have you experienced this?" and "What would you do?" We live in Alabama. I am not super crazy about the peds in my area. (We moved here a 1-1/2 yrs ago for my husbands family. We are moving back to the DC area end of May.) He turns 3 in early June and will have a routine appt then. My health insurance is OUTRAGEOUSLY expensive and quite frankly, there is no way we can afford to pay for the endless CAT scans, MRIs and extended hospital stays that I have read about online that all these other parents put their kids through only to be told everything is fine and it will eventually go away. Because of this poor insurance coverage for diagnostic exams, it will literally cost us thousands of dollars we don’t have. (did I mention I *hate* our insurance industry? ? ) But what if.......? Epilepsy? But, on the other hand, at 18 mos we had a ped in Chevy Chase recommend us to a surgeon for a little belly hernia who told us he needed surgery. He didn't and he is fine now. (Did I mention I don’t really trust doctors, though I badly want to?) What would you do? I am worried and frustrated (and overwhelmed with work and trying to move and feeling far from support.) Thank you for your thoughts. [/quote]
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