I’m sorry if this isn’t in the right place but not sure where it could fit. Around 6 months ago my 2 year old came home from nursery and was completely not himself, he was throwing himself on the floor and having massive tantrums which he never usually does. I noticed his face was looked strange but couldn’t work out why. He then sat on the sofa, completely calm, and I noticed his shoulders and limbs were intermittently and repetitively twitching, at one point he looked at his arm as it twitched as if he was confused as to what was happening. This lasted a few minutes and as soon as we picked him up and distracted him it stopped.
Rightly or wrongly this triggered something within me, it just didn’t look right. I luckily had videoed it and rang 111 who told us to go to a&e, nurse who triaged us seemed concerned at video, but dr was absolutely not concerned. I pushed through my health insurance and got toddler seen by a paediatrician the next week, he too was not concerned.
However we’re months down the line and I’m still at times paralysed with fear that it’ll happen again. A very close family member had epilepsy (caused by a separate illness so no genetic link) and parts of what I saw in my son that evening really resonated with seeing that family member. Nobody could give me answers other than ‘it’s just one of those things’ and that it’s basically not a big deal. I know I need to accept that.
I guess I know I’m unreasonable for being still so worried but I’m just wondering if there’s any advice on how I can move on from this, it seems to have triggered major health anxiety.