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No car

Ugh I had the freedom of coming and going, all of a sudden....poof....no driving. My family made me return the plates of my car. It was a sad day. No...

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Don't give up

I was 13 when I was diagnosed with epilepsy I was having petit mal seizures (absence seizures) once per day and grand mal seizures (tonic-clonic seizures) 3 to 4 times...

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Coping With Epilepsy

I had first big seizure at 17, so I found out about epilepsy. I had thought I was psychic or crazy, but nope. I just had epilepsy, a physical problem...

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Wednesday

I had another seizure and it was 5 minutes. I end up hurting my legs and shoulder on my right side. I was sitting at my computer desk. I was...

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Cronic Seizures

I have been having mal and grand-mal seizures since I was 6 years old. Growing up, school was challenging, stressful and depressing having bad seizures in class and watching everyone...

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Head Injury

I had a head injury in 1979 which caused my epilepsy. I had broken legs too. I was diagnosed with tonic clonic seizure and was put 2500 ml of sodium...

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Formerly Special Operator: Now Disabled

I’m a retired Air Force Special Operations Meteorologist. I had a head injury on the job in 1990. It led a massive brain tumor that was extracted in Jan 1997...

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I have to start all over

I’ve had epilepsy for 11 years. Recently, my doctor started tapering me off my medication. I’d been on 3,000 mg of Keppra for years which we both agreed was way...

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I'm Not Sure What I'm Doing

Life has a way of throwing rocks without any idea on what the purpose of it was for? It can be assisting you further or a downfall where you go...

Active 6 days ago

Advice for those who get auras

As I have had epilepsy for many years so much experience. One being, it is our brain so one should know it better than ourselves on how much is too...

Active 7 days ago

Hello! My Name is Amy

At seventeen years old, I got first grand mal seizure, but I worked through the seizures not knowing what was going on until one of the coworkers saw my seizures...

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