Drop attacks

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DS2 used have peculiar episodes where he would just 'drop' and usually by the time he hit the floor he was coming around again.

As he got older he was able to tell us how he felt before them. He said that his vision went funny, and described it like looking thru a kaleidoscope which turned to tunnel vision, and then he usually dropped at that point.

It was anything that provoked these episodes from thinking about something horrid, or slipping, or feeling a certain cloth he didnt like, or even feeling embarrassed!

Thankfully he seems to have grown out of them now (hes 11y - but had them between about 3y and 9y).But the other day he was playing on some big trikes, got his foot tangled in the pedals and went a peculiar colour, had to sit down because he was seeing the 'cubes' again. He didnt pass out or keel over, but went practically green and said he couldnt breathe - basically the start of a panic attack. I made him look at his ankle because i thought he was imagining something gruesome when it wasnt even bruised in actuallity. so im hoping that its not going to be the new trend .

but what i was wondering was... does anyone know what these episodes might have been by the (vague) description i have given?

Sorry, I don't know but bumping for you.

I know that some kinds of epilepsy can be triggered. The preceeding feelings could be a visual "aura"-sometimes its a smell, feeling or visual etc, and you can also 'outgrow' epilepsy, (it usually just manifests itself differently). Syncope is attacks of fainting-do you think it could be this. Basically I have no idea sorry, do you have a neuro?

OMG riven never thought of that

we went to see DS5's paed, and he said that it wasnt seizures because DS2 could feel it arriving - and that they always happened with a trigger however slight, I once saw him doing it because he was standing on the settee, slouched and his arm slipped down the length of the arm, and by the time it had got to the bottom he had gone!

He didnt do it before a particular incident:

he was about 18mth-2yrs and he was playing in a soft play area, and it was time to come out and go home. He wasnt impressed and threw himself onto the HARD floor, and he went extremely peculiar - pale green/grey, jerks, rolling eyes, and it lasted for maybe around a minute maybe less. He was extremely tired after it and very quiet for the rest of the day. He also was very pale until the next day. He wasnt sick or anything, and walked fine. but i always wondered looking back if it had done the damage, or the 'drop's were just a coincidence thereafter.

Incidentally, DS1 had maybe around 6 or 7 seizures (i know what i saw even tho both the Paed and neuro said it couldnt have been) when he was in the peak of puberty over about an 18mth-2y span. He does have ADHD tho, and since looking it up, apparently its not that uncommon , but no-one believed me at the time and certainly hadnt heard of it .

ds has just had eeg for same sort of thing and absences now just waiting for results to come in ,

ds has just had eeg for same sort of thing and absences now just waiting for results to come in ,