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Everyday Problems with Epilepsy
Sat, 06/07/2014 - 15:39I am a student and want to write a paper (minimum 20-30 pages) about problems people with epilepsy have.
My own epilepsy is under control due to medication but I know I am lucky. Well, what are your everyday problems? Or in general?
Been there done that but it
Submitted by just_joe on Tue, 2014-06-10 - 16:39
Been there done that but it was a very long time ago. If you ever have them ask when you had your last seizure ask them if they ever ask someone how has heart disease when they had their lasy heart attack. It kind of makes them think. Have you ever told anyone what a seizure is??? All a seizure is is an electrical impulse going off wrong in the brain. Tkink about a computer you have freezing up. That is like an impulse going off wrong. rebbot and then scan your computer and it stops. That simple but some people will walk away rather then help. It seems like they treat their computersw better then people. It is that plain and simple. Medications are designed to keep those electrical impulses from going wrong. Most people do not know anything other then a grand mal seizure becasue they have see one or 2 but they may have seen many other seizures without knowing it. I had been written up i nclass for day dreamming for over a year before I was diagnosed with epilepsy. It seems those day dreams might have been or were absence seizures (peitie mal). Most people know of only 1 kind of seizure which is generally a grand mal (tonic-clonic). So they onlu know 1 of the 40+ different types of seizures. There needs to be a lot of educating done. Your friends and co workers were afraid because they saw you in a seizure that is very bad to see and yes in a grand mal it is scary and you do look like someone that might die. I had friends that thought the same thing. But the difference in my focal motor seizure was I did not lose conciousness. I saw,heard and understood what was happening. I couldn't do anything to stop the seizure As far as memory loss it happens and yes at times mine went and came back. That happenes to almost everybody.