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Topic: Teen Zone

help me?

10/2014 | 0 Comments

Hello,I am wondering if there has been anybody who was diagnosed with epilepsy, but everything came back normal. I have been to a neurologist once...
Before

10/2014 | 0 Comments

I had my first seizure in December 2001, i had temporal lobe epilepsy and i was diagnozed for 8 years. I am now 16 years old, i have had a tough time...
Had My First Seizure Last Saturday

09/2014 | 0 Comments

So over the summer, I started dropping things and doing jerks. At first, everybody thought I was clumsy. It happened mainly when I had either hot or...
Hallucinations and behaving like a Dog!

09/2014 | 0 Comments

Hello, My nephew who is 10 years old has been diagnosed with epilepsy this year. It started off this year as: 1. Fainting oftenly in school; 2. Severe...
New, I need help explaining.

09/2014 | 1 Comments

So I'm gonna go ahead and consider myself still a teen since I'm only 18. I have very bad epilepsy, focal and generalized and it's genetic. My half...
Simple Absence Seizuers returned

09/2014 | 1 Comments

My son is 13. He was diagnosed with simple absence seizures when he was 9. Last March, he was completely weaned off of his medication and was seizure...
PLEASE HELP!!!!!

09/2014 | 0 Comments

I began having what I thought were blackouts, but later on was diagnosed with Complex Partial Seizures. About a year later I started having Grand Mal...
Coping with Complex Partial Seizures(CPS)

09/2014 | 0 Comments

I was diagnosed on my 14th birthday. My birthday was last Friday, August 29th. I was diagnosed with Complex Partial Seizures. Being diagnosed scares...
I think I've had a seizure! Help!!

08/2014 | 1 Comments

I don't really think I have epilepsy because I had other symptoms too but I really need help!! I'm extremely scared because I think I've had a seizure...
Dealing w/Epilepsy in general

08/2014 | 1 Comments

I'm Meg, 16yrs old and a junior in HS. I have grand mal seizures mostly due to stress and sunlight. I also have myoclonic seizures but a really rare...
hate being 18 and not able to drive?

08/2014 | 3 Comments

Does anyone feel the same way? I mean-our friends get their liscenes and all can drive a car, go out and have fun and we have to wait. Some medication...
Aura Feeling...

08/2014 | 2 Comments

I was "technically" diagnosed with epilepsy almost two years ago. I say technically because my EEGs and MRIs came back with no detection of epilepsy...
living 2 years with out a seizure

08/2014 | 0 Comments

I had seizures when i was a baby but then they were dormant until i was 20. in July and then I had another one in Sept when i was 21. but it will be 2...
Living With Epilepsy

08/2014 | 1 Comments

It's a struggle isn’t it? To be pulled away and lose control of yourself. I'm 15 and have complex Partial Seizures. January 24th, 2012 was when I had...
Acupuncture

07/2014 | 1 Comments

Hello, I'm Isabella I'm 14 (think I may be the youngest one here) Anyways, I was always really sensitive to medication and it wasn't really helping at...
Does anyone have any advice??

07/2014 | 1 Comments

Recently I was doing physical therapy due to back problems and during one of the exercises, I passed out. I had felt a bit lightheaded and black spots...
Once was enough..

07/2014 | 7 Comments

Hi! so... i'm new here. i'm Lyndel, and i had my first seizure 15 days ago. i went to have an EEG last week and it turns out i have Frontal Lobe...
Just diagnosed

07/2014 | 1 Comments

I was diagnosed with Epilepsy three month ago, and I am so angry... why this happened to me ? I need help hope someone could help me to understand...

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