Unusual and Extremely Violent actions during Seizure activity

[snownangels]

I have been a foster parent to a woman for the past 27 years, she has grown up with my children, and is now 41, and has always had seizure activity. She is on Depakote and Tegretol which seemed to help control them for many many years.

She usualy just suffers from the petit mal and just drops to the floor and spasms a little, and she has gotten seriously hurt a couple of times because of this sudden dropping.

The past few years tho.. her seizure activity has escalated into grabbing things and throwing them, or banging them against things during the seizure, she only has one arm that she can use, the other disabled since birth, and she is very strong. It is hard to take things away that she is beating against something, someone or herself during the seizures,  For instance this morning she dropped to the floor in the kitchen with a seizure, then she grabbed a metal folding chair and literally started swinging it back and forth across the kitchen including hitting herself with it.. I had to wrestle the chair away from her before she really hurt herself or broke something.

I am afraid of her damaging her only good arm, two years ago she fell on it and broke her wrist in 3 places during a seizure.  I have taken her to the neurologist, the only one available in our area, and he seems unconcerned that her seizures seem to have esculated to be very violent. I have to have her sit in the back seat of our car while I am driving, because she has seizured sometimes and tried to grab the steering wheel, and during the seizures it is hard to explain how strong she gets.

She is usually mild mannered, but the seizures are getting out of control, it worries me.. But yet again her doctor seems unconcerned. She is mildly mentally retarded, and i fear her doctor has already wirtten her off as a lost cause. All I know is if they get any worse I may have to find other living arrangements for her, because I am not strong enough to get the things away from her, before she hurts herself or someone else during these violent seizures.Which makes me very sad, as she is part of our family.  I really don't know what to do.

[wenggay]

please help..my brother have violent seizures he has it whenever he is mad or tired, he wasn't able to talk at the time he is retarded- his teenage years. His mad at times for he wasn't able to express how he feels, like sad or any headache or toothache which we wouldn't know since he can't talk. It's very difficult for us to deal with him whenever he had seizures, for he would hurt all of us and he's very strong and  we always end up having wounds, my dad is the only man in the house and he's about 65 yrs. old already and not that strong anymore to hold my strong bro..i always fear whenever he shows symptoms of going to have violent seizures...can this be treated??please help