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Does Epilepsy ever totally go away?
Fri, 04/02/2004 - 01:57I've read that it does. But I have my own theory on it. I believe that Epilepsy is like a Volcano – it can lie dormant for a very long time and then raise its ugly head again. We all know that some Volcanoes have been dormant for thousands of years but that they can erupt again any day. Now because us humans don't live for that long, some epilepsy may remain dormant for our whole life and others are not so lucky. I've read a few stories when the people have gone 20 years with no seizures or medication and then bang they start having seizures again and need to be put back on medication – now I'm sure they thought that they didn't have it any more! I myself have gone 7 years (between 7 and 14) without any seizures or meds and then start having them and needing meds again. I recently had another seizure my first since 1997 although that was triggered by a drug so I'm just waiting to see if that's all it was. I use to wear a Medic Alert Bracelet before and are going to start wearing it again when I get my replacement one as I lost my first one – I think everyone who has a history of seizures should wear one cause you just never know when you may have another one
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I had nocturnal seizures when
Submitted by 5313751128 on Tue, 2020-04-28 - 17:13
I had nocturnal seizures when i was younger and out grew them at the age 13 as well as you. I am 27 and yesterday i had 8 seizures. I am worried and scared for what the future holds.
I had epilepsy as child. From
Submitted by Kavulich on Sat, 2020-03-14 - 16:04
I had epilepsy as child. From age two to about twelve. I was on misoline I don’t remember much about it or how to spell it. I am 57 now and my health isn’t that great. I have food intolerance, hypo thyroid, hypertension, and weight issues. My concern is that my mother has Alzheimer’s disease and I read that people with epilepsy or that have had in childhood may have the related aphasia/Alzheimer’s/dementia later in life. It really scares me because I struggle to find my words at times. The article said seizures could reoccur with these other complications and that if speech impairment was s problem along with language skills it’s a good chance that a person will have Alzheimer’s later in life. I am pretty freaked out and terrified. I watched my mom for to long struggle. Now possibly me too! Scared an don’t know where to turn for help.