Night Seizures?

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My daughter does the same thing. (2yrs old )She wakes up crying hysterically

during the night. I go in her room and she arches back crying and moaning. I

have to keep calling her name over and over and tapping her face for her to

finally stop and realize that I am holding her. I just assumed that she was

having a nightmare. After she 'wakes' up she is fine just a little dazed.

She then goes back to sleep.

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Hi

I'm not sure if this will help but my son Liam who is now 3 years old and

has verbal apraxia use to do the same thing. He would wake up in the night,

screaming and seem to have severe pain. He did it for quite a while I

remember he started not long after he was born. He did eventually stop with

no known cause. At the time I use to try to correlate it with the food he

ate or I ate but could find nothing. To this day I still do not know what

caused it. He does now sleep fine through the night with out difficulty.

Remember EFA's can take longer to work in some children than others. It can

take up to three months in some children so dont give up hope!! It took liam

longer than most kids to really kick in and now a year later, he has gone

from non verbal - to speaking so everyone can understand him!

H

Co-founder CHERAB OF OHIO

>From: LISA JOLLY <lisaj45230@...>

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>Subject: [ ] Night Seizures?

>Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 11:40:19 -0700 (PDT)

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>Hi again to all,

>

>I have posted on this board a couple of times in

>regard to my 2.5 yr old daughter who was diagnosed

>with severe verbal apraxia about 2 mths ago. I would

>like to mention we have started her on the ProEfa (for

>about 2 weeks now) but have not seen any improvements.

> My question is to those of you who have children who

>have experienced night seizures...as we are wondering

>if may have some type of sleep disorder and/or

>night seizures that is somehow causing the verbal

>apraxia. She often wakes at night and moans and or

>yells, also thrashes about in her bed, but seems

>unaware of my presence when I go in to calm her down.

>Does this sound like night seizures? We thought

> was possibly having some type of seizure

>disorder at 7-8 mths, she had an EEG and MRI though,

>which both came back normal. Only recently have we

>suspected that now possibly something else is going

>on. Any comments on this will be appreciated.

> J

>

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Lori,

I find your comments of interest and have always looked for common links

between children that have speech difficulty. My husband and I noticed that

when our son was 2 days old that he would do this twitching thing that

involved different parts of his body. More so than not, it would involved an

arm. We kept watching and worrying about him and the nurse at our doctor's

office was able to observe one of these episodes at a one week follow-up and

supported our observation to the doctor. From there we went to a Pediatric

Neurologist that diagnosed our son with Benign Nocturnal Sleep Myoclonus.

The EEG did not show any disruption in his brain activity during a " benign

seizure " so we were told that as long as his breathing was not effected that

we should not worry about it and our son would outgrow it. He did outgrow it

before his first birthday, but I always wondered what these seizures were

doing to him. He stills " startles " all during the night like you described

your son. During my pregnancy I mentioned to my doctor that my babies

movements, at times, didn't seem right as they felt " jerky. " If I had not

been pregnant before I wouldn't have known what " normal " movement felt like.

This did not seem right to me even though the Dr. dismissed it. Once my son

was born and I saw him having the " jerky " movements I knew that that was what

I had been feeling.

My son is now 3.8 years and has made great progress with his 3x week therapy.

I feel like we still have a long road ahead of us, but he has come so far.

Both his therapist just rave about his progress. I hope that you find some

of this information helpful.