she was fine till the age of 5 when it all started. She started waking up suddenly from her sleep around midnight and will scream loudly, with abnormal movements of her limbs and will again sleep after 20 min. These incidents are ignored initially as some sleep related problems of kids. But this started happening every day, almost 3-5 times every night, so she was taken to pediatrician. Pediatrician diagnosed this as epilepsy, and prescribed some medicines, and counseled parents about benign epilepsy. **Benign epilepsies** are common in childhood and they generally respond to single medicine and disappears in around 4-5 years so patients are withdrawn of the medicines in 4-5 years.

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