Hello all. New here. My boy, now seven, was diagnosed with multi-focal epilepsy two years ago as a result, they think, of a seizure he had when he was a baby. He’s on medication- Sodium Valporate- and not only has he continued to have seizures, the side effects have been awful- as some others have pointed out: brain fog, tiredness, low energy, and more recently, memory loss. He’s just had an assessment for ASD and the doctors think he may have it but I really think he doesn’t. And they’ve said he’s in an extremely low percentile for cognitive development even though I’ve tried to explain that it’s not that he can’t do the work, he just/ mostly- refuses to do it and the effects of the Valporate are slowing him down. When I get him to do his work though, he does it. Two questions : Has anyone taken their child off Sodium Valporate? And secondly, has anyone had an ASD assessment for their child and not trusted the result?
Sorry for the long post