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Non convulsive epilepsy
Mon, 03/12/2018 - 09:19Topic: Parents & Caregivers
Finally after all the testing and describing different “episodes” and after an increase in anti seizure meds that made the bed wetting stop. The doctor diagnosed my son with non convulsive epilepsy. Just gathering some info. If anyone else’s child started like this did they eventually advance to convulsive epilepsy?
Thanks
Comments
so I think if it’s absence,
Submitted by Amy Jo on Tue, 2018-03-13 - 00:06
so I think if it’s absence, the chances of tonic clonics occurring is different for childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) and juvenile absence epilepsy (JAE). consider (instead of focusing on the chance of TCs) finding out the specific diagnosis (not always clear as later ages of CAE and younger ages of JAE overlap but supposedly there’s a difference in frequency or something else) and what the prognosis is for that type. I thought kids usually grow out of CAE but not so for JAE.
There was no specific type
Submitted by Lwid510 on Tue, 2018-03-13 - 08:17
There was no specific type such as absence etc listed just diagnosis of non convulsive seizures. His eeg showed short bursts of generalized spikes and waves generally in sleep
non convulsive isn’t clear,
Submitted by Amy Jo on Mon, 2018-03-12 - 20:32
non convulsive isn’t clear, do you know what kinds of seizures he has? e.g. my child has atypical absence, myoclonics, simple and complex partials but has never had a tonic clonic (grand mal) (in 7 years that we know of). people with either generalized or partial seizures can have tonic clonics but not always so it might be too early to tell OR if he only has typical absence then it might just be very very unlikely to occur.