Hello All,

My name is Jenna. I am on this site, because I feel that I can be help to others. I was diagnosed with epilepsy in 2004. I was in collage and working full time. In between time, I would still try to maintain a social life and keep up with my friends. At times it was hard.  We all know how it is in collage. Late nights,drinks,parties with drinks and so on. After I graduated i guess I was so use to that life style and continued to drink ever since. I was single and ready to mingle. My girl friends and I would have dinner and drinks every night. I dont want to say I drank heavily, but by the looks of it all, I guess I really did. I met my husband in 2007 and we hung out together,which slowed down my drinking, and I had 4 seizures that year. It was a little weird, because I hadn't  had a seizure since 2004. We noticed that my seizures would happen after a night of drinking .I went to the Neurologist, they performed a routine EEG. My results came back and showed I had seizure activity.The Dr put me on Lamictal amd I've been on it ever since. A whole year has gone by I am 5 months pregnant and of course have not been drinking. I also am seizure free. I went to have a follow up EEG,and there was no seizure activity. I was totally suprised with the news. My Husband and I had done tons of research and allot of seizures happen from the withdraw of alcohol consumption. So, I am a firm believer,that heavy alcohol cunsumption to little or no alcohol consumption can definantly cause seizures. I hope this helps many of you guys out there suffering with seizures. Also being on lamictal AED I was scared that my child would have some kind of birth defect. However I was on a small dose 75mgs the first trimester which is the time of formations. Took tons of folic acid and am having a beautiful healthy baby boy (biscuit) in March. His name is going to be Joshua

Best Regards,

 Jenna