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I have a 3 year old that started having seizures in October. He had one waking up that morning and we had EEG, and CAT SCAN ran, nothing showed up. Then in November he started having seizures about every 45 minutes and went into status elpitus. He was put in the hospital for 2 days the started him on Dilantin the first day and then moved him to Depakote. We tryed that. It didn't stop them. So they added on Tegretol. He keep having drop seizures so they weaned him off it and added Topamax. Just last week he had two grad-mal seizures and another one yesterday. The recent EEG showed generalized epilepsy. His neuroligist said that if he had another grand-mal that I needed to take him to the local hospital and get him started on Dilantin. I have noticed that every time he has the grand-mal seizures he has been on an antibotic for either a ear infection, or last he was on an antibotic for a sinus infection there has been no fever this time. Does an illness like that knock off all the levels of medicine? This is not my 3 year old son anymore he is a totally different person. With ever medicine they add he has so many different side affects. Is this all common, and what else should I expect???? Should I get a second opinion or does it take a while to get them lined out. It's only been 5 months but it seems like it been 3 years.


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