I totally agree with you. Something is definitely wrong. As a person with on of the year more rare forms of epilepsy and essentially diagnosed myself through reading medical research, she is having some sort of seizure events. An average person doesn’t know all the manifestations of epilepsy, so it is difficult for folks to get their mind around it unless these see someone convulsed on the floor.
It isn’t so much the seizure, but the medication itself that can be totally debilitating and disabling.
“As a person with one of the year more rare forms of epilepsy and essentially diagnosed myself through reading medical research, she is having some sort of seizure events. An average person doesn’t know all the manifestations of epilepsy, so it is difficult for folks to get their mind around it unless these see someone convulsed on the floor.”
Absence Seizures | Epilepsy Foundation
www.epilepsy.com/learn/types-seizures/absence-seizures
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An absence seizure causes a short period of “blanking out” or staring into space. Like other kinds of seizures, they are caused by abnormal activity in a person’s brain. You may also hear people call absence seizures petit mal (“PUH-tee mahl”) seizures, although that name is not common anymore.
Good FPs/Peds will often have a strobe flash light to help make this diagnosis by triggering it in a semi dark exam room.
We know a couple, who adopted a young baby girl from one of the former USSR countries. She is a teen ager, and she has recently been having problems at school and at home and was getting a bad behavior rap put on her by teachers/coaches.
The parents were spending a lot of money on diagnosis. A retired fp, friend of the family did the strobe light test. He made a prelim diagnosis of absence seizures. Then, they got a neurologist, who confirmed that she had and was having absence/petit mal seizures.
She lost her driver’s license. She and her family were upset.
She has been fitted with new glasses in this month. Her parents say that she is back to normal now with the minor drug treatment and the glasses.