21 January 2011

We went to see Olivia's Paediatrician on Wednesday as she's had a couple of small issues over the last couple of weeks.  The Sunday before last her stutter was dreadful.  It hasn't been like that for a long time and she really couldn't talk.  It's been coming and going since.

Her absences have been seen a few times too but not so much in the last week.

We're worried about her development.  Her speech is like a toddlers (although we're sure it was better before) and our childminder told us she's concerned too.  Olivia's not using any connecting words (the, and etc) and can't remember alot of words such as kettle, tv, handle, ladder.  She's not so good naming colours and numbers either and is easily confused.

The Paediatrician asked Olivia some questions then said he's going to refer her to the Paediatric Neurologist and also request a sleep deprived EEG.  All this should happen within the next 3 months.  He said he's going to write to the Neurologist to ask if he can think of anything rare that could be mimicing epilepsy as he said it's a strange case and he's not convinced it's epilepsy.

So basically we now feel like we're back at the beginning diagnosis wise, although Olivia's much better than she was.  He also said she's at the top end of the Lamictal so he doesn't want to increase it.

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