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How many people have developed epilepsy around or after 2000?
Sun, 08/15/2010 - 19:16Although many people are born with epilepsy, i cant help but notice a great deal of people (myself included) who developed epilepsy within the past ten years.
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Re: How many people have developed epilepsy around or after 2000
Submitted by SweetPea82682 on Sun, 2011-09-04 - 11:33
I was told at one piont by my Neurologist that " Epilepsy is similar to Cancer cells in that, even though you may be born with Epilepsy in your geans, it sometimes takes a random, or injury of some sort to trigger the seizures to occur and possibly on a regular basis." Wether there is fact to this or not, I don't know but, my dad did'nt have any seizures until he was in high school. He was playing football, fell and hit his head, and seized. The seizures continued, and inevidably he was diagnosed with Epilepsy.
How many people have developed epilepsy around or after 2000?
Submitted by philipfloyd on Fri, 2010-08-27 - 23:20
Every 3rd or 4th month since 2002 ... Previous to having these fits the only medicine i was on was an inhaler i grew out of in approx 2000
Re: How many people have developed epilepsy around or after 2000
Submitted by sandyhay00 on Mon, 2010-08-16 - 02:14
i am thinking it is because so many more people are taking more drugs than ten years ago. drugs themselves will bring on epileptic seizures. i myself am on at least 10 different pills for fibro and copd and inhalers and breathing nevbulizers and oxygen machines. i have these seizures which we are just now trying to figure out where they are coming from, but they really didnt start till i got on all these meds, however, while i was in the hospital and taking them i didnt have any seizures. not till i got home. can it be the way i take them or at the time of day or what we dont know. but we are trying to find out, my mri and eeg both came up neg. but i have the bruises from when i blacked out and fell.
edited to say : take out the question mark in the subject line or it wont let you post says it is to long, which it is since the computer adds the (re:) part
i am thinking it is because so many more people are taking more drugs than ten years ago. drugs themselves will bring on epileptic seizures. i myself am on at least 10 different pills for fibro and copd and inhalers and breathing nevbulizers and oxygen machines. i have these seizures which we are just now trying to figure out where they are coming from, but they really didnt start till i got on all these meds, however, while i was in the hospital and taking them i didnt have any seizures. not till i got home. can it be the way i take them or at the time of day or what we dont know. but we are trying to find out, my mri and eeg both came up neg. but i have the bruises from when i blacked out and fell.
edited to say : take out the question mark in the subject line or it wont let you post says it is to long, which it is since the computer adds the (re:) part