Welcome to Connect, @galords,

As a parent, I can see how worrying this must be! After a bit of research, I found this information, particularly about the fact that your son's seizures occur after he wakes up:
In juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME), seizures often happen within 30 minutes to an hour of waking up in the morning or after a nap. A cluster of myoclonic jerks may be a warning sign that a tonic-clonic seizure is coming. https://www.epilepsy.com/learn/types-seizures/myoclonic-seizures
I'd also like to bring @sarahlou @dawn_giacabazi @sall and @kerivb into this discussion as they have talked about myoclonic, nocturnal and/or tonic-clonic seizures in the past.

@galords, may I ask if you would share a few more details? What medications is your son taking? Have the doctors offered an explanation as to what may be causing the seizures to occur so frequently?

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