DS2 (21) has epilepsy which isn't fully controlled by medication. Since Christmas he's had on average one tonic clonic seizure a week, with a couple of atonic and absence seizures as well. I keep an epilepsy diary and realised today that his seizures have almost doubled in the two years he's also been taking sertraline, compared to the two years before that. There is a connection between sertraline and increased seizures in some people, which we discussed with the epilepsy clinic when he first went on it - but the view of the specialist ( and us) at the time was that the risk was worth taking because his anxiety was so debilitating and stress can in itself cause seizures. Has anyone experienced a connection between SSRIs and seizures?
DS is autistic with severe learning disabilities btw, which is why I'm looking into it rather than him. He hasnt ever been able to comply with an EEG.