GMA Article on Epilepsy misdiagnosed as Autism

[Snoopymom]

Just thought I'd share as ds was misdiagnosed as not having autism but many other things before having an EEG and diagnosed with seizures.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/story?id=4882297&page=1

[ecki]

That's interesting. Before our developmental pediatrician would give Kayla the autism diagnosis, we had to do a 24 hour EEG with the pediatric neurologist.

[1stluvispooh]

DH and I both saw that segment on GMA. We thought it was interesting because we had to do the 24 hour EEG and an MRI in the diagnosing processes.

[Snoopymom]

That is so good to hear, here is a link (hope it works) to the parents board on the epilepsy site you might find interesting...

http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/efforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=2&threadid=78838&enterthread=y