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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our daughter was having focal awareness seizures aka partial seizures. Basically noticed her staring out into space and talking about random stuff. We ignored at first because we just thought she was tired. Did not present like a typical seizure. They started getting more frequent and noticed her smacking her lips. Google search indicated seizure. Made an appt with children’s hospital, dr. Gaillard ( he is awesome but we had to wait months). He did have dd do eeg which showed brain activity and she went in meds which stopped them so far almost a year. She had an mri done a couple months ago which showed scar tissue causing the seizures. No idea how the scarring happened since she never had a significant head injury. We can consider laser surgery down the road to potentially treat it but for now she is doing well in the medications. I thought about getting a 2nd opinion but the treatment is working so no reason to doubt original diagnosis. After seeing a video of partial seizures I knew that is what my daughter had. I do think it is odd that you are going on meds before eeg. I would question that.[/quote]

OP here - Thanks for your reply!

We did have the 72 hour EEG which showed the increased electrical activity. That was after an initial 30 minute EEG which showed the same abnormalities. Neurologist wants us to go forward with the MRI we have scheduled, but did say that it could come back as normal, in spite of whatever is going on.

Wishing you all the best![/quote]

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