Up until now you have taken many steps to learn about managing your seizures, risks of seizures and available treatments. This section will help you develop your own preparedness plan and enable you to pull together important information about yourself and your epilepsy. You, and those who care about you, will then have the necessary information when you need it most. You can start with a quick version of Developing My Seizure Plan 101, or work step by step through each section.

Preparing these tools will help you:

• Talk to your health care team about your types of seizures and risk for seizure emergencies.
• Keep track of treatments used to manage your seizures.
• Develop an individualized plan for seizure first aid and how to use “as needed” rescue treatments to prevent seizure emergencies.
• Teach other people how to respond to seizures appropriately.

In this section, you will find information on:

• Importance of Preparedness Plans
• Developing My Seizure Plan 101
• Organizing My Personal Information
• Knowing My Health Care Team
• Knowing My Type of Seizures
• Understanding My Seizure Triggers
• Taking My Daily Seizure Medicine
• Recording Other Seizure Treatments
• Seizure First Aid - Care and Comfort
• Knowing When Seizures Need Additional Help
• Knowing My Plan for “As needed” Treatments
• Knowing When to Call for Emergency Help
• Reviewing My Seizure Plan

Coming soon!

• Safety Management Plan: To help you stay safe using information about your seizures and other risks.
• Using Emergency Medical Resources: To help you learn how and what to use to help manage seizures safely.
• Teaching Others: To make seizure preparedness work well for you, people in your life also need to know what to do. This section will address your role as a teacher, the role of other people in seizure management, and how they can be prepared to help you in the event of a seizure.

Continue to Importance of Preparedness Plans

Topic Editor: Steven C. Schachter, MD and Patricia O. Shafer, RN, MN.
Last Reviewed:5/25/07