18 Nov 10

The neurologists have not been able to give us a proper diagnosis.

When we stumbled across niamhs' blog, we found that charlene's condition is very similar to her medical condition, migrating partial seizures. Coupled with the fact that some medical literature had shown that potassium bromide has some success in the same condition,it seems to indicate that Charlene's condition is that. The blog noted that migrating partial seizures have no attributable cause medically, though the medical science suggests that mitochondrial disorder is a likely cause.

Interestingly, one doctor, a geneticist told us in Oct that she suspect Charlene's underlying condition could be due to mitochondrial disorder.

however to confirm the diagnosis, a muscle biopsy has to be performed. It is invasive in nature as it requires surgery so she advised us against it. DNA testing are expensive so she will only recommend it unless we have "limitless funds". It also has no therapeutic value bec the mitochondrial disorder has no treatment currently.