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Daughter with Newly Diagnosed Generalized Absence Seizures
Epilepsy & Seizures | Last Active: Mar 22, 2019 | Replies (36)Comment receiving replies
Hi. I also have a seven-year-old daughter that was recently diagnosed with absence seizures. She also has been more seizures. from all that I’ve read and what the neurologist has said Keppra will not treat absence seizures. Depakote and zarontin are the treatments of choice. Have you guys considered Depakote? I have a good friend who’s daughter was on it for three years. She had 30 or more seizures a day. She went over a year without a seizure On Depakote and has been off all meds for the last three months- she’s 10 now.
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My daughter has been severely allergic to Ethosuxamide and Lamictal out of the four we have tried. We were going to try Depakote by another Neurologist that I was not fond of (any of them, actually), but we weaned her off Keppra and since last Tuesday, my daughter has gone from over 200 per day to perhaps 1 absence seizure in the past few days!! NO meds on board at this time. She is getting an EEG next week. We kept telling the doctors that her seizures were never that noticeable until we tried medications. And with 2 different times they thought our daughter had Stevens Johnson Syndrome, we were finished with putting her through anything else. It was a terrible experience. Just keep praying she continues this way without meds!
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@lucyd719 Welcome. How are your daughter's seizures being managed?