Monday, July 20, 2009

Neurologist Appointment

We went to visit the Neurologist today as a follow up to yesterday's ER visit. We have decided that it doesn't make sense to do any additional testing yet. He's not confident that we would get enough new informationt justify putting Ryan to sleep to do an MRI, and we know he's having seizures. We don't need an EEG to tell us that they are seizures.

So, for now, we will just treat the seizures with a new cocktail of medicines. We're going to continue on with the Keppra, slowly lowering the dose a bit over the next few weeks. We're going to slowly add a new drug called Lamictal.

When I asked about the potential side effects of Lamictal, the Neurologist said it can sometimes cause insomnia or sedation. A little sedation might not be a bad thing. But, oh, my, please not insomnia.

So, we'll try it. But it will have to wait till Wednesday. We were unable to find any local pharmacies that had the brand name drug in stock, and our Neurologist felt strongly that it needed to be the brand name on this particular drug. Walgreens is going to order it for us. So, we'll start on Wednesday. I'll let you know how it goes.

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