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Topic: Living With Epilepsy - Youth

LKS

08/2014 | 0 Comments

Hello all just wondering if there is a forum for LKS or if anyone has any resonse to our story? Have a great day! Our son just turned 5 and developed...
How do we feel happy

08/2014 | 4 Comments

I often feel sad and depressed living with JME. I'm nervous and have constant anxiety that I will have a seizure in my sleep. Also I used to be 130...
What is it like living with JME?

08/2014 | 3 Comments

Hi, I'm a student paediatric nurse, and I am currently working on a presentation about what it's like living with Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy - in...
Hallucinations prior to seizure?

08/2014 | 1 Comments

Hello, I am 15 and my name is Ashley! I just wanted to see if anybody could tell me what type of seizure I had or if my experience was common. Really...
Grand Mal Seizures at 15

07/2014 | 2 Comments

Hi, I had petiete mal seizures when I was a kid, but was declared seizure free when I was 11. A month and 8 days ago I fainted in the middle of a...
Tripping Acid....Epileptic Seizures

07/2014 | 1 Comments

My friend just started doing tripping acid not to long ago. Now ever since he started that he's been having seizures while he's asleep. He was just...
New to epilepsy.

05/2014 | 1 Comments

Hi, I am 20 years old and i have been living with epilepsy for about a year now. The country in which i live in is has a pretty bad medical system...
Could it all be connected?

05/2014 | 0 Comments

Hi guys. So I'm a 14 year old female and in the past 7 months I have been diagnosed with epilepsy (absence seizures) and scoliosis following a...
Behavioral Changes After a Seizure

04/2014 | 1 Comments

Hello, my name is Morgan and I'm new to this fourm and to epilepsy in general. My 8 yr old daughter had her first seizure on 10/29/13 she collapsed at...
Dating someone with epilepsy?

04/2014 | 5 Comments

Hi, I'm 17 years old and I've been dating my boyfriend for about a year now and he has seizures. He began having seizures here and there in the past...
Coming to grips with my diagnosis.

11/2013 | 3 Comments

As I sit here this morning, looking outside, I thought it would be nice to take a walk in the woods with my dogs. Other days I remember my life as a...
Possible seizure?

11/2013 | 3 Comments

Today I was watching my 5 year old daughter read a book to herself. I decided to record it because it was really cute. Almost halfway through the...
Absence Seizures in a 2.5 year old

10/2013 | 3 Comments

our 2.5 year old daughter was diagnosed a few weeks back with absence seizures. We saw episodes as early as before ber second birthday. she started on...
Book for Children with absence seizures

10/2013 | 2 Comments

Hi everyone, I am a mum of a little girl with absence seizures. I have written a book and have self published it which I would like to draw your...
service dogs

09/2013 | 8 Comments

Hi everyone, Does anyone here know how i go about getting a service dog for my daughter who has epilepsy with frontal lobe seizures? She needs one to...

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