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Topic: Women With Epilepsy

A 50MPH Bus I want off.

07/2016 | 2 Comments

I do not know anyone else who has seizures in my day to day life, so I have come here to find other people to talk too. I do not really know how to...
Complex Partial Seizures and Tamoxifen

07/2016 | 0 Comments

Greetings, I have been recently diagnosed with complex partial seizures. I wanted to know if anyone is also taking Tamoxifen. This medicine is a...
Simple seizures in clusters

06/2016 | 0 Comments

Hey All. I was diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy after I started having tonic clonic seizures two years ago, since then I've been put on...
IVF?

06/2016 | 0 Comments

I'm not sure if any women on here have periventricular heterotopia(which is the cause for my epilepsy) but I was at my genetics clinic this morning...
Inability to orgasm after surgery???

06/2016 | 0 Comments

Anyone have trouble with this after seizure surgery? I had a rigt temporal lobectomy 5 weeks ago and it feels "dead" down there. We have tried a few...
Dying hair

06/2016 | 1 Comments

Hi, I'm getting my hair dyed but will need to get it bleached. Does anyone know if this is safe to do or has anyone done the same? I've inly had 2...
Need Help

06/2016 | 0 Comments

I was diagnosed with nocturnal epilepsy in February, but before that I had a sleeping problem called Hypnic Jerk, I never went to the doctors about it...
Anxiety meds while on lamotrigine?

06/2016 | 0 Comments

I have always had an anxiety problem ever since I was diagnosed with epilepsy 10 years ago but lately it seems to be getting worse and I'm thinking I...
Positive labor experiences???

06/2016 | 1 Comments

I am 31 weeks pregnant and have had a Tonic Clonic seizure almost every 2 weeks throughout my entire pregnancy. Despite this and Gestational Diabetes...
Clusters years apart

05/2016 | 1 Comments

I am a 55 year old woman who started having petit mal seizures in the 80s. I have seizure clusters that are several years apart and really haven't...
Concerned about my girlfriend

05/2016 | 0 Comments

I'm concerned about the well-being of my girlfriend and needed some advice. She is 28 years old (Asian/Indian). When we started dating she had told me...
Concerned about my girlfriend

05/2016 | 0 Comments

I'm concerned about the well-being of my girlfriend and needed some advice. She is 28 years old (Asian/Indian). When we started dating she has told me...
Keppra and post partum depression

05/2016 | 4 Comments

Hi everyone, so I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced worsening depression on Keppra. My husband has been doing a lot of digging online and...
Hypoglycemia or Seizure?

05/2016 | 1 Comments

Hello! I have some questions concerning episodes I have had over the years. I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia 6 years ago, after having fainting...
Seizures and hormones

05/2016 | 0 Comments

Hello, I am a 22 year old female and I have recently been diagnosed with epilepsy within the last 6 months. I started having seizures about a year and...
Depakote and Pregnancy

05/2016 | 2 Comments

I have a 5 year old daughter who, although she is ok, has developmental delays due to the depakote I had to take for my seizures. I am still on the...

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