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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...

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...

Trouble expressing thoughts.

Hi, I'm 24 and have just been diagnosed with epilepsy. I've not had many seizures but was given the diagnosis due to the severity of the seizure. Since my last...

Seizures

Hello community! My name is Goeffrey. I am 35 and I live in Uganda. I had my first seizure when I was 26 and I couldn't tell how it came...

Convulsive seizures in epilepsy

I have had epilepsy since being a teenager at the age of 13. During the year 1984. I am now 55 years-old. My seizures happen in this way where my...

Febrile Seizures

Hi there! I was wondering if adults with epilepsy can have febrile seizures as well? I know they are most common in children. I had a high fever and had...

TLE

Hi All I’m Michele from the U.K. I’m 62 and have had TLE (temporal lobe epilepsy) or focal epilepsy since I was 11. It’s good to share stories. My worst...

Adult Bike Stabilzers (training wheels)

I have had psychomotor seizures through ages 9 until I finally had brain surgery at 16. I am now 57 and would like to use adult bike stabilzers for my...

Recent issue with insurance

Hi everyone, little backround info first. I’m 28 I’ve had epilepsy since I was born. As a child I had petit mal seizures and as I got older those stopped...

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