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My 15 year old son had his first tonic clonic seizure in January 2025, he has had 3 more since then. They started him on lamotrigine after his first seizure, we weaned him off of it in June because he had been seziure free and thought the seizure was caused from him being sick with a high fever the week before it happened. Come July he had a second seizure so they started him on keppra and has had two more seizures since we started keppra, we now are introducing lamotrigine back along with his keppra still. Could his seizures be caused from metabolic issues or going through puberty? Are the drs maybe misdiagnosing him with lack of nutrients and vitamins? He has been a healthy kid his whole life, no head trauma, no tbi or family history of seizures so I’m just wondering why now and if he will grow out of this?
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@terin82
Yes to your first three questions although how often I wouldn't know. However, your doctor should have done blood tests to rule those issues out although you may want to ask him if a vitamin & mineral profile test was done.
JME is seldom if ever grown out of. 50% of epilepsy patients never know the cause. Even if it was a genetic cause and genetic testing was done don't always show up so in my opinion it's best to accept the conditionand not worry about the cause, just. Concentrate more on controlling the seizures. Did you ask his doctor these questions?
Does your son have my myoclonic jerks prior to his seizures?
Take care,
Jake