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Ive never come to terms with my epilepsy

07/2012 | 11 Comments

Firstly, thanks for taking time to read. Im 21 and ive been diagnosed since i was 8 years old. You would have thought that i would have been able to...
Please Help...

07/2012 | 0 Comments

5 years later and still no answers, no diagnosis for seizures except, "convulsions by history." I'll try to be as succinct as possible in order to...
Night Seizures

07/2012 | 2 Comments

The past few nights I've been woken from a sound sleep one night from dreaming of being in the middle of a "seizure" in a dream and last night I could...
Stomach miagranes and epilepsy

04/2012 | 0 Comments

My son was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of 4. He has been on several different medications with no relief. He is currently only taking lacimatel...
Stomach miagranes and epilepsy

04/2012 | 1 Comments

My son was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of 4. He has been on several different medications with no relief. He is currently only taking lacimatel...
Catemenial epilepsy and mirena

04/2012 | 2 Comments

Hi there I have catemenial epilepsy due to excess estrogen and get a week of seizures once every month. I am on a mixture of lamictal and progesterone...
Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy triggers

03/2012 | 1 Comments

Hi, I have recently been diagnosed with Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy as I had a tonic clonic seizure (age 40) and some strange episodes as an...
Seizures wherever I go !!

03/2012 | 1 Comments

My Seizures are getting worse and worse!! My Mother is in a Long-Term Care Facility and has Lost her mind, as she no longers remembers me, yet I went...
seizures during your sleep

03/2012 | 1 Comments

hey there i was wondering if anyone knows how they feel or has any memory of having a seizure. i know i have had some while i would just be lying...
traumatized by paramedics

03/2012 | 0 Comments

Hi, someone I know with complex partial seizure was recently traumatized by a group of paramedics (for the second time in the patient's life). the...
I do not know what this is please help!

03/2012 | 2 Comments

I was getting ready for bed and started to put on a movie ( as I usually do), when all the sudden I felt very dizzy and just strange. I thought wow I...
Want To Advocate But Don't Know Where?

02/2012 | 0 Comments

Hello - I am a late twenties Female who has Epilepsy. I used to get frequent seizures until last year when I had brain surgery (NOT FUN). I am seizure...
SEN and epilepsy

02/2012 | 0 Comments

Hi I am new to this site, but wanted to see if I could get any help, research or information relating to special educational needs related to epilepsy...
discouraged

01/2012 | 1 Comments

I was diagnosed with epilepsy 2007 possibly from Lyme Disease and multiple head injuries. Started on depakote which caused excessive weight gain so...

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