Worried about 8 year old daughter

[mommy1979]

Last night I had a real bad episode with my daughter that has me extremely concerned. But before this there were times but not as bad. My daughter is almost 9 and almost 2 years ago she was at her grandmothers and she had just went to sleep. Shortly after her grandmother heard what sounded like my daughter choking. She would stare and was unresponsive. She got her to come to by putting ice on her and turning on cartoons. My daughter is ADHD and the time they had just put her on Aterol. Her doctor figured that this was a side effect and took her off the medicine. We had tried several medicines before we actually found one that worked. She started taking ritalin in the generic form. Well about 2 months ago she did the same thing again shortly after going to bed except this time it was harder to bring her out of it. She was at her grandmothers again. The doctor wanted to take her off sweets to see if it was possibly diabetes. But he also scheduled her for an appointment to see a neurologist to see if she was possible epileptic, but that wasn't until the end of August. Well last night shortly after she went to bed my fiance went in to check on her and her sister and found her shaking. When I got into her room her eyes were rolled back and she had her teeth clinched with a gray type of vomit coming out to the side of her mouth. She was in the fetal position and shaking. I could not get her to come too. I know now that I'm to get her on her side and not to mess with her. But I was so scared at the time. We got her to the ER. They have ran tests on her and everything came out fine. Then she had a C-T Scan and that was fine also. I'm wondering, because I've noticed and her grandmother has noticed that this usually happens when she skips supper. We try not to skip it, but sometimes church has run late or like yesterday we had been out of town and ate a large, but late lunch. So no one was hungry when we got home. I've seen seizures before, but they are usually during the day time. I find it strange that it happens shortly after she falls asleep. Do you have any advice?

[MG (Admin)]

Well last night shortly after she went to bed my fiance went in to check on her and her sister and found her shaking. When I got into her room her eyes were rolled back and she had her teeth clinched with a gray type of vomit coming out to the side of her mouth. She was in the fetal position and shaking. I could not get her to come too. I know now that I'm to get her on her side and not to mess with her. But I was so scared at the time. We got her to the ER.

This was certainly the right thing to do...you are describing what may be a seizure. I would strongly recommend performing an EEG and if it is normal then repeating it with sleep deprivation. I would recommend that you take her to an epilepsy specialist to investigate this possibility. Please let us know how it goes.

All the best