Last July (per the recommendation of our school psych), I asked my sons' pediatrcian to evaluate him for ADD/ADHD. She explained that she would need to refer us to a neurologist and we went to see him just after school started in August. After what appeared to be a thorough physical examination (and an extensive Q & A with me), he didn't seem to be convinced that he had ADD or ADHD. Instead, he asked me to have an MRI and a Sleep EEG done on my son. The EEG will be done first and has finally been scheduled to take place on Friday October 26. I'd be lying to say that I wasn't nervous about it. I was instructed to keep him up hours past his usual bedtime the night before and then to wake him at 3 AM on the day of the test. He apparently has to be very fatigued (asleep, preferrably) during the test. The neurologist is wondering if he's having petit mal seizures and apparently this EEG will determine whether he is or not. I'm not certain what the MRI will tell us - I've often read about brain-mapping in Autistic children, though, and am curious to see the results.
Thankfully, my boy is a brave one and he's actually excited about the tests. (He especially likes the fact that he's going to get to stay up late on a school night - hah!) What a little trooper!
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Good luck with the tests. Hope you get the results that your looking for. Leonard
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