My son had his first seizure (febrile) when he was fifteen months old. At 23 months he had 18 grand mals in a little over 36 hours. He had a few breakthroughs but his last grand mal was in 2001. He began to have atonic, especially with high fevers. In December of 2004 at age eight he was weened off the Depakote. As far as I know he's remained seizure free.

Today he came in and asked me if it is possible to smell things when you are asleep. I said, "well what did you smell?" He told me that he smelled flowers. I continued to question him by asking what he was dreaming about and he said that he didn't think he was dreaming. So I then asked him if he smelled anything else ever. He said he smells "gyms" all the time. I asked him to explain it better and he said "ya know like running and smelling in the gym." I didn't want to put words in his mouth so I stopped questioning him.

I've called his doctor (new since the move) and am worried right now. These are the same partial seizures that I have. Once I did have a pleasant olfactory seizure, but usually it's the burnt coffee or stinky shoe smell for me.

How worried should I be?