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Topic: Living With Epilepsy - Adults

A place to share questions, concerns, and challenges that adults with epilepsy may face in understanding, managing and living with seizures.

What does it sound like is going on here?

06/2005 | 2 Comments

I've had issues with migraines for 5 years, and was hospitalized earlier this year with a hemiplegic migraine. That was their "best guess" based on my...
Honesty

05/2005 | 0 Comments

I am a 22 year old Irish girl with tonic clonic and absence seizures since I was 16, and I had the strangest experience the other day. I am supposed...
Grand Mal Seizures upon Awakening

05/2005 | 5 Comments

Hi,I have had 8 grand mal seizures since 1990 and even though they haven't been often, it is still difficult not being able to drive for 6 months at a...
What to do...What to DO?!

05/2005 | 26 Comments

I know there are a few of us who are on disability because of epilepsy. I, myself, am on disability, can't drive and have to depend on family to take...
Disability Benifits

05/2005 | 12 Comments

Does anyone know anything about disability benifits? A friend of ours recommended that my son apply for disability benifits since he is unable to work...
VNS?

05/2005 | 7 Comments

I've had seizures since I was 9 years old...I'm now 34. A few years ago I had the seizure monitoring done. I was ready to do anything to stop the...
I don't get it - but want to. Help?

05/2005 | 10 Comments

I was reading the excellent information printed by the sponsors of this site and came across this paragraph under medicines and I don't get it. I had...
disability benifits in British Columbia

05/2005 | 2 Comments

Hello to all, I just wanted to know if anyone lives in beautiful B.C. Canada and if they have applied for and recieve disability through the...
typical for partial complex? (new poster)

05/2005 | 8 Comments

i'm 29, diagnosed with partial complex seizures neuro believes might be caused by a lesion due to a embryonic scar from lack of oxygen or some blah...
sleepwalking and epilepsy..

05/2005 | 2 Comments

i've had plenty of twitching and jerking in the past week or so, and they seem to be followed by lots and lots of tingling..i just have even more...
CPAP - low oxygen saturations nocturnally

05/2005 | 28 Comments

I'm wondering if anyone else here is on CPAP or BiCap. I've been undergoing sleep studies, recently had an AEEG (ambulatory EEG) and am going to have...
can seizures be triggered by intercourse?

05/2005 | 35 Comments

My partner has what seems to me to be a seizure immediately after we have intercourse. He is 28 and says that it has been happening for about four...
How do you know??

05/2005 | 14 Comments

To the people who have seizures in their sleep......how do you know? I'm worried I might be having them. For awhile now I've noticed strange things...
Does anyone relate?

05/2005 | 31 Comments

have tried several times to post with little or no luck in responses and am begining to wonder if this site is just for a few people in "clicks: or do...

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