DD had an abnormal eeg result suggesting benign rolandic epilepsy. She has had a few odd turns including one where she dropped to the floor suddenly.
Anyway the neurologist can't see us till august and wants an MRI which I am told is not always the case with benign rolandic epilepsy so I am worried they think something else is going on (what though?). She has specific language impairment with associated learning difficulties so I guess its because of that possibly.
Anyway so now I am on alert all the time for anything that looks seizure like especially at night as the majorityof strange things happening have been at night. So two nights ago she fell out of bed and I ran up to see what was happening (she has spates of falling out of bed and then I often find her half way across the floor or she sleepwalks. This time she had fallen in a weird position and her eyes were half open which again is fairly usual for her. Her left arm was tensing/jerking a bit and she was opeing and shutting her mouth.
Last night she was up late and cried about going to bed. It was a forced cry, really deep breathes to force herself iyswim. Then suddenly she started making burping/choking noises. I ran upstairs and her arms were tensing and going up and down she had thrown er head back and seemed to be laughing and crying at the same time. The laughter was seriously weird not her usual laugh completely manic and she would hold her breath in between. She calmed sdown in response to me hugging her which makes me think maybe she was panicking rather than fitting? Laughing though was odd.
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Could this have been a seizure? And other epilepsy questions
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