Re: Rapid Blinking

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Thanks for the tip on the dry eyes and artificial tears, . I hadn't

thought of that being a possible cause, too.

And Bonnie, thanks for the info on tics. It's so hard to say what's going on

with right now as she's so young and doesn't really have a level of

communication at this point to explain what might be happening to her. She does

a lot of the hand flapping, too--and sometimes her eyes will roll back in her

head when she does that. I never know if these things are seizures, or tics, or

just plain self-stim behaviors. My guess is, a little of all three. We took

videos of her at various times and showed them to her neurologist and

developmental ped. At first, when they started watching her, she was doing a

lot of the hand flapping and shaking her head back and forth real fast. They

said, oh I think that's just self-stim behavior. But then it quickly went into

one of her rapid blinking, rolling back her eyes, and then long staring spells,

and they both looked at each other and said, oh that definitely looked

seizure-related! And like I said, her EEG did show signs

of seizure activity. But there could be tics in there too--it's all so

confusing and interrelated and hard to pinpoint! It's probably our biggest area

of worry about her right now, because I honestly think it affects her attention

and learning abilities, and I don't feel like we (us or her doctors) are

figuring out how to help her control it.

We're going to try cranial sacral therapy this summer and see if that might

help some in addition to the meds. did CST a couple of years ago for a

few months, but she wasn't having the level of these " episodes " at that point,

so maybe that will help some too. I do agree with you that anxiety triggers the

episodes even more--we can see that with all the time.

I appreciate all the info!

, mom to (4)

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