Stella

Stella

Monday, July 1, 2013

Seizure Treatment Plan?


Spoke with the neurologist’s assistant again today (who, in turn spoke to the neurologist on our behalf).  She states that the treatment plan for now is to keep Stella on the Gabapentin 100mg and wait.  The suspected diagnosis is “Idiopathic Epilepsy”; “Epilepsy with no known cause”.
 
We are to continue with the Gabapentin and if another seizure should occur we are to call.  The neurologist wants to wait as long as possible before putting Stella on anti-seizure medications because they are very powerful and can be damaging to the liver  We were told it can cause liver failure.  If we are lucky the Gabapentin will be enough to stop further seizures since Stella’s are considered relatively “mild”.
 
Stella remains fairly disoriented.  We are hopeful her body will adjust to the medication and she will return to her silly, joyful, Puggy self.

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