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To: Suma who wrote (108)	3/30/2007 10:27:35 AM
From: grampa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1564

Yours was a true seizure. I had what I could only describe to the doctor as being a seizure but in fact it was the only term I knew of to use. I had grown up with migraines and tho they had decreased over the years, I'd get one maybe every year or so. This episode was a shooting "seizure" of a second at most, up the back of my neck. Happened several times in a weeks period. The doctor said they were different kinds of migraines -- different because of my age (73) and he put me on Toponal. No recurrences for over a year and a half then a mild recurrence at which time he increased dosage. No recurrence since that time (several years). And no regular migraines.

To: Suma who wrote (108)	3/30/2007 3:08:39 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 1564

Because of the work I was doing, I saw lots of people who had seizure conditions during the seventies. Most of them had severe brain damage as a result. So when my first daughter had a seizure at the age of one, I was a total wreck until I learned more about it. Some people have a condition called fibral seizures when they are infants and toddlers. The seizures are brought on any time there is a rapid rise in temperature. It isn't the high temperature, it is the quick change that throws the victim into a seizure. It throws the electrolytes out of whack in the neurons some how and whamo the kid gets it. Most kids grow out of it by 5 or 6 and there are no known long term effects. The medication that we could have used to keep the kid from ever having a seizure would have produced zombie like results, so we just opted to keep her from having contact with other kids (no day care) until school age. She loved school when it finally came time to go and has every since. She is an engineer now.