atonic seizure

Heather Has Lennox Gastaut Syndrome, This causes multiple seizure types-most common are atonic/tonic, atypical absence and myoclonic. This syndrome as three parts to its disagnosis the seizures, the developmetal issues and the EEG.
This is a Head drop seizure, also known as an atonic seizure. She was having a cluster of these. I haven't done any video of these since she was about 5 so I am updating her seizure video to track how they change over the years. Heather had a complete corpus callosotomy in April of 2010. The suregeon left less than 10% of her corpus callosom. This was just enouch to allow her seizures to return.

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• Lennox Gastaut Syndrome
• atonic seizure
• head drop

[azzoukanourhan]

My daughter has the same head drops seizures more than once every day. What do you recomment as medication and diets were not a success. Shall I go for a brain surgery?

[Denae1977]

@azzoukanourhan My daugther has been helped by a combination of brain surgery, medications, IVIG and ACTH. There hasn't been just one treatment that we found to help her. It has been a combination. She has severe epilepsy and multiple seizure types though so to tease out which treatment is working for each seizure would be impossible.

[Denae1977]

@azzoukanourhan My daugther has been helped by a combination of brain surgery, medications, IVIG and ACTH. There hasn't been just one treatment that we found to help her. It has been a combination. She has severe epilepsy and multiple seizure types though so to tease out which treatment is working for each seizure would be impossible.

[Denae1977]

@azzoukanourhan My daugther has been helped by a combination of brain surgery, medications, IVIG and ACTH. There hasn't been just one treatment that we found to help her. It has been a combination. She has severe epilepsy and multiple seizure types though so to tease out which treatment is working for each seizure would be impossible.

[Denae1977]

@azzoukanourhan My daugther has been helped by a combination of brain surgery, medications, IVIG and ACTH. There hasn't been just one treatment that we found to help her. It has been a combination. She has severe epilepsy and multiple seizure types though so to tease out which treatment is working for each seizure would be impossible.

[Denae1977]

@azzoukanourhan @azzoukanourhan My daugther has been helped by a combination of brain surgery, medications, IVIG and ACTH. There hasn't been just one treatment that we found to help her. It has been a combination. She has severe epilepsy and multiple seizure types though so to tease out which treatment is working for each seizure would be impossible.

[dabgr]

I'm so sorry. I know this doesn't mean anything but I am 41 with no children and had a cat that had seizures. It's very frightening and it was only my cat!!! I can't imagine if it were a child. My prayers are with you.

[Tinkme27]

Cute redhead girl.

[KaisyuVadin]

~Sigh~ can those drop attacks effect the whole body mine are like that but only happen once a week

[DMSteller87]

Writing a research paper now on epilepsy for PHD. At the "atonic" section of my paper. I've had epilepsy since I was in grade school. Never wanted to talk about it, but now I find it fascinating to research it and write about it.