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Does Weather Impact Your Seizures?

Has anyone experienced break out seizures due to unstable weather lately?!?? Like out of no where… just boom; seizure. But the weather has been so upside down and outta control...

Coming out of a tonic clonic seizure

Good morning- I’ve been thinking about the postictal state we experience after a seizure. I remember my first seizure being extremely terrifying because I “came to” with paramedics and at...

Does heat triggers seizures?

I just moved from California to Arizona and I’ve been having frequent seizures I’m not stressed , it’s the hot wind,pavement, also it’s hard to make friends I’ve become more...

Anti-seizure drugs (AEDs) and epilepsy

It is said that Anti-seizure or antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) can effectively prevent seizures in about 7 out of 10 people with epilepsy. However, they can also create long-term, serious side...

Could it be a 'small' seizure?

Hiya, I hope this doesn't sound too silly! I was diagnosed with epilepsy 12 years ago - i only have tonic clonic seizures, no aura or warning - they're managed...

Diagnosed

I was diagnosed when I was 2 yrs old. Mom noticed me sitting on the steps instead of going up them. Asked why I had stopped I said my foot...

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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...

Juvenile absence epilepsy

Hello. My son was diagnosed early 2024 with JAE, he is on lamotrigine twice daily and has managed it well. With brief absence seizures weekly. Few days ago he had...

Seizures with no medical answers

I have been having seizure episodes for a little over 2 years now. Some times they mimic gran mal seizures and other times it will mimic absence seizures. I have...

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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