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Topic: Family & Friends

A place for those who care for and about people with epilepsy - caring for yourselves as well as those around you.

Sports not safety

06/2014 | 1 Comments

Hi everybody !! wondering if anyone would know from experience or from some one else . on high impact sports. I snowboard , skateboard and I really...
Personality Changes After Seizure?

06/2014 | 1 Comments

My husband developed epilepy about 6 years ago. He is 51 years old and we think he may have been having simple partial seizures for some time before...
Friends and Relationships

06/2014 | 1 Comments

Hello I am new to this site and although I'm not new to the whole epilepsy thing there is still a lot that is bothering me. I have been wondering...
Friends and Relationships

06/2014 | 0 Comments

Hello I am new to this site and although I'm not new to the whole epilepsy thing there is still a lot that is bothering me. I have been wondering...
Don't know where to go next

06/2014 | 1 Comments

My 21 yo daughter was diagnosed with epilepsy about 6 months ago after 5 months of not knowing what was going on. She doesn't seize and the initial...
Worried about my 6 yr old son

05/2014 | 0 Comments

~~Hi , Im wondering if anyone has any history of their child having myoclonic epilepsy? My son was diagnosed at 2yrs old as having benign myoclonus...
Dad

05/2014 | 1 Comments

hi. I've been trying to find a support group that deals with seizures and hopefully i've found the right spot. A short version of my dad's story is...
Worried about my father

04/2014 | 1 Comments

Hi all I'm new here from the uk seeking advice.. my father had a siezure in the night last week it was horrible scared my mum, all of us he was...
sister diagnosed w/ nocturnal seizures

04/2014 | 6 Comments

hello all... my 15 year old sister was recently diagnosed (its been a few months...i honestly cant think of what month or day...seems like too long...
Spouse with epilepsy

04/2014 | 5 Comments

My husband, who will turn 37 next month, was diagnosed with epilepsy 8 years ago. Ten years prior to his first grand mal, he had had a motorcycle...
Lost and Confused

11/2013 | 1 Comments

So I have had epilepsy since I was six months old. I am now in my thirties and I have been in a relationship for the past eight years and we have two...
Adult Healthy Siblings Research

11/2013 | 0 Comments

My name is Julie Simon, and I am a doctoral student in clinical psychology at Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology in Boston. I am...
I got divorced,

09/2013 | 0 Comments

Hey people, I got separated last 30 days. I just fed up from my marriage. Our inter interaction gap has designed long-distance between us. Now I can't...
Fiancé with "epilepsy"? ...need advice.

09/2013 | 9 Comments

Hi everyone, I hope I'm posting this in the right place. Everytime I've Googled something pertaining to seizures or epilepsy, I always get directed to...

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