Seizures in more then one sibling?

Question

How common is this? What if they presented in infancy?

My middle daughter, whos almost three has chronic uncontrolled Myoclonic seizures that started in infancy. My youngest daughter, two months old had a burst of myoclonic seizures shortly after her vaccines.

Although they weren't that frequent in my middle daughter until about six months old. They started at the same time that my youngest daughters did.

I am praying that was an isolated case but we wont know until her EEG this month. Seizures run heavily in my family but I've never seen a sibling set where more then one child was affected.

My oldest child is seizure free.

Answer 1

I know several people who have had similar stories about seizures after vaccinations in their children. Here's a great group that has a lot of information about it, presented by a man who had seizures that started when he received his immunization and was able to overcome it.

http://www.2-b-well.org/question-answer.html

In this group, I know several families that have had the same thing occur in multiple siblings.

Peace!

Answer 2

Well it all depends on what type of seizure they have. Like with my brother he use to have seizures when he was a baby but by the time he started school he didn't have them anymore. As for myself I have had seizures since I was 9 months old and I am now 28 years old and about 3 years ago I had to go under surgery on my left temporal lobe because I was having 2-3 small seizures that would last maybe a few seconds to a minute a day and 2 grand mal seizures a month.

So I guess it all depends on what type of seizures they have because if it runs in the family chances are one of your kids might have them but they wont always be the same type others in you family might of had.

Answer 3

Having seizures is genetic. I'm no doctor but I get a grand mal every few years so I know what I'm talk about.