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Managing the Aura Phase

I had a question because I'm prepping a first aid presentation about seizures and a kahoot also. So basically if you have someone (an adult) that's currently in an aura...

Home health aide

My name Lee Anne, My husband Rob and I have been together for 34 years. We met in high school English class. While reading the book of Mice and Men...

Gelastic Epilepsy

I read were you named some seizures that are less know. Like the laughing seizures. Yes, you are correct. Gelastic Epilepsy (laughing seizures) are rare. I know because I was...

Share your experience: Take our In America survey and tell us the impact of epilepsy.

The In America survey is now closed. To better understand the patient experience and realities of epilepsy, we are fielding our In America survey. By taking this anonymous survey, you...

I feel like giving up

i hate feeling different all the time. i haven’t felt normal since august 2023 when it all started and i feel like i have nobody i can talk to ...

detection of epilepsy

Hi All, it is about 21 years since I suffered epileptic seizures, these days I try to use my condition to not go to military service, because in my country...

Good morning, my name is Lee Anne

My seizures are getting worse. I have developed, Complex Partial, Grand Mal and Petite Mal My sons and husband both have been noticing that they are going stronger, closer together...

Manganese, Mussels, Clams, and the Glutamate-Glutamine Cycle

I am a caregiver for my wife who has been diagnosed with epilepsy for about a decade. Because when she seizes, the right side of her body convulses more strongly...

Sleep paralysis

Hi there, For roughly 17 years, sodium valproate has been controlling my epilepsy diagnosis. I've been experiencing "sleep paralysis" for several months! The experience of "sleep paralysis" has been awful...

Heat and Humidity Can Trigger Temporal Lobe Seizures

After growing up in Ohio where the heat and humidity were fairly reasonable-they rarely caused problems. But after moving to the Southern MD-DC Metropolitan Area-the heat and humidity factors were...

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