Stories

It's estimated that only 3-5% of people or persons with epilepsy may have a seizure or other health complications due to flashing lights, strobe lights, pyrotechnics etc., it all depends...

Anyone with a chronic illness including epilepsy, or anyone who takes any type of medication at certain times of the day, probably already know it's a challenge on taking the...

My Name is Timmothy Cronen, and I am lucky enough to be here to explain my story to you all. I was in a horrible car accident in 1997 where...

Being the parent to a young adult (23 years old) is tricky. He wants independence, to be like his friends, to not be scared to leave his house for fear...

You may wonder why I ask you to help raise awareness when you or your loved one might not have epilepsy, well at one point my daughter Melody didn't either...

I’m Michele, from Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. I’m a 62 year old woman, divorced from an abusive alcoholic. I’ve had TLE since I was 11, stress and ovulation are/were my...

I had my first seizure when I was 13. I’m 18 now and still have trouble and sometimes feel very embarrassed for having a seizure in front of my friends...

I'm a step father of 3 teens, and a father of twin girls (5yrs old). I was excited all day to get off work and spend the remainder of fathers...

I left Las Vegas, after spending two years in the Las Vegas Valley, returning to Florida. Within nine months I had my first tonic-clonic seizure. With having no clue how...

Hello community 😊 I had my first tonic clonic seizure in April 2022, I felt like I had been run over by a train, whiplash and my tongue and cheeks...

Hi, I'm Miyah's mom. She is 12 years old and was diagnosed with generalized tonic clonic seizures and myoclonic absence seizures 3 years ago. Blinking lights and those school lights...

I first started having petit mal seizures in 1970 when I had 3 major head injuries in a matter of 3 months. At first they were diagnosed as frontal lobe...

I got diagnosed with epilepsy when I was 1-and-a-half years old. I am still dealing with seizures and I am almost 36 years old. It has impacted me a lot...

I was finally diagnosed at the age of 29 after being passed along from doctor to doctor since I was at least 15 years old due to the fact most...

I had epilepsy since I was 2 years old, but everyone including doctors thought they were panic attacks. They would come and go every other year and would stay for...

At 36 my husband kept telling me: "something is wrong you keep staring off and can't respond." I told him he was crazy, that I was fine and that didn't...

I was diagnosed with epilepsy at 19 and in an instant my life changed. Simple things like birth control, etc., now had to be a thoroughly thought-out process. So when...

I hate it when my husband and I go shopping. Especially around the holidays... My husband will tell me there is flashing lights ahead. However, in the outside world, that's...

I’ve had epilepsy since I was 5 years old. I was on tegretol up until I was 10 years old then taken off of it because I wasn’t showing any...

My name is Esmeralda, and I've had epilepsy since is was 14 years old. I've basically been living with this terminal disease for 10 years now. I have grand mal...