PNES - Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES)
Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures ( PNES ) In one word? Scary. Your thriving, growing child explains that she "goes" to a place where she can't remember spaces of time throughout her school day. Immediately, my thoughts go to seizures and Epilepsy. We travel this path thinking it's Epilepsy. What will the neuro say? What will they do? Weeks later, we still have minimal answers and are going through tests. The initial EEG shows nothing. Why is she having the seizures. By this time, I have seen the seizure first hand and it's worst than I thought. She has was seems to be Absence Seizures. She's there but not. And she only has them at school. Strange, right? As if the first EEG is not bad enough, they order a second one to capture approximately 36 hours worth of data and possibly one of the seizures. My poor child has to wear the wires attached to her head to school, since that is were most of the episodes occur. Being in 7th grade is challen