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Doctor Appointment

The neuro appointment yesterday was not to bad. We talked about all the aspects of her seizure the night before. Then we got down to the fact she has now been on a total of three medicines, none of them fully controlling the seizures. That with the fact the seizures always last an hour or more before finally stopping. I was then told we are down to just three options now because the chances of any medicine stopping them was very slim. So now our options we have ranging from the most effective to least. 1.

Frightening and Horrible Seizure

On 12/15/08 my sweet 7 year old daughter had another seizure. We gave her the 20mg Diastat and began to monitor her. The medicine didn't work, as usual so we called and had them send an ambulance. Once in the ambulance they hooked her up to an IV. She was still seizing so they gave her 10mg of Ativan while on our way to the hospital. The hospital is 15 minutes from our house. Once there they got her settled and the doctor came in. Still she was seizing so they gave her another 2mg of Ativan. My poor little girl 32mg of medicine and it still wasn't stopping. Finally after 2 ho

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