I feel like giving upAfter 4 years of trying to manage this condition I’m starting to wonder… what’s the point? This isn’t the life I was meant to live. This isn’t for me. I...reactions11repliesCopingSeizuresTips & Advice
Has Your Memory Worsen as You Got Older ? Is a Whiteboard or notebook helping ? As we know, dealing with epilepsy has many effects that can’t be explained. Course, you can't explain it... It would be best if you remembered to do so. Dealing with...reactions4repliesCopingSymptomsSide Effects
Caring for Someone With Epilepsy: Seizure CareAs a caregiver, how do you care for a loved one when they have a seizure?...reactions5repliesCopingSeizuresTips & Advice
Recent tonic clonic, worst one yet.Hi I'm new here and would like to share a bit. I'm a 51 year old male had my first seizure not long before my 50th birthday, was diagnosed with...reactions1replyCognitive IssuesCoping
Switching medsSo after a year of kepra I’m switching to trileptal. The only issue I had was random mood swings and occasional outbursts of crying. I had 6 days ago my...reactions2repliesCopingCognitive Issues
Managing the Aura PhaseI 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...reactionsrepliesCopingCaregivingSeizures
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...reactions1replyCognitive IssuesCopingCaregiving
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...reactionsrepliesAwarenessCognitive IssuesCoping
Heat and Humidity Can Trigger Temporal Lobe SeizuresAfter 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...reactions1replyCopingTips & Advice