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Topic: Women With Epilepsy

Focal Epilepsi need New Neurologist in WI

09/2006 | 1 Comments

Hello All: I live In Milwaukee, WI. I have been diagonosed with Focal Epilepsi in 1999. I also suffer from Hydrocephalus, Aarnold Chiari malformation...
fat :(

09/2006 | 8 Comments

Do your meds make you gain weight? What do you do to lose the medication weight? :( I feel fat and ugly. Nothing fits me.
Hot flashes

09/2006 | 0 Comments

Those power surges we woman experience are fun [not]. I am noticing that I experience a seizure [simple partial] frequently after I have a hot flash...
Topamax

09/2006 | 15 Comments

I've been taking different meds for seizures since I had E, but someone has put to my attention Topamax. Says that it's better and it helps you to...
Astrocytoma

09/2006 | 5 Comments

Ok ladies i have posted before but i havent been on for a while. Just so you know i have a 2 year old daughter, when i became pregnant with her i...
Dallas Area

09/2006 | 7 Comments

Hi I would like to get some referrels of Epilepsy Specialist in the Dallas area. I will be moving there the first of this next year so I want to find...
Epilepsy and Anesthesia?

09/2006 | 4 Comments

Hello ladies! Have any of you with epilepsy had any type of surgery where you had to be put under general anesthesia??? I am scheduled to have surgery...
no periods with Trileptal?

09/2006 | 12 Comments

Hi - For about the past five months or so, I have basically had no period when it was time. I've taken a pregnancy test and that is not the reason. My...
Absence Seizures (Generalised)

08/2006 | 9 Comments

Hi, I'd like to know if anyone suffers from Absence Seizures (Generalised) e.g. Petit Mal and Grand Mal, either from early childhood through to...
premarin

08/2006 | 0 Comments

Hello to all, It's been sometime since my last post. But, I need some help on this one. I am going through menapause and my seizure have increased. My...
Trileptal during pregnancy?

08/2006 | 6 Comments

I am about four months pregnant with my first child. Ever since my pregnancy started, I have been having many, many more seizures (mostly in the...
Estrogen and Epilepsy research

08/2006 | 4 Comments

Women and Epilepsy Approximately two million Americans (1%) have epilepsy, and about 180,000 new cases develop each year, according to the National...
Indiana driving laws.

08/2006 | 0 Comments

Who knows if I can drive or not if the BMV doesn't know? I have a job offered but I have to be able to drive! WOW a job offer. I have to make this...
i need advice.

08/2006 | 2 Comments

i think maybe a woman will understand this problem that im having: I am babysitting today..I only bring that up because sometime next week i have to...
Lamictal & IUD

08/2006 | 1 Comments

I am currently taking Lamictal for my epilepsy. I want to have an IUD put in next month, but the pamphlet stated that additional care from my...
Involuntary shudders

08/2006 | 1 Comments

Hi. Has anyone had to deal with involuntary shudders that shake your whole upper body and make you cry out or moan? These happen to me about 2 or 3...
Worried about Keppra and pregnancy

08/2006 | 6 Comments

I'm new here, My husband & I are wanting to to try for baby number 2 With our first child I was on Epilim and lamictal and everything turned out fine...
New to all this

08/2006 | 3 Comments

Hi, I am a 28 year old woman who just started having seizures 4 1/2 months ago. I have complex partial that turn into gran mal. I have no warning and...
Epilepsy Issues

08/2006 | 2 Comments

Hey y'all I was in here back in April or May of this year and first I want to thank all of you for all of your help. I have a new issue of discussion...

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