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I have seizures and they affect my speech

Tue, 01/25/2005 - 16:10

Topic: Living With Epilepsy - Adults

Hi,

I am 33 years old and I have been having seizures now for about 3 years. It happened shortly after a toxic reaction to topomax. I was in the hospital for a week then and every since then I have had minor seizures off and on. When I do it affects my speech and I stutter bably and lose my thoughts and words. I feel so weird when this happens. I don't know anyone else like this. I have bipolar and dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality). I heard people with these illnesses can have seizures, I just don't know what type. I hate being like this. It makes me more depressed. I am getting so frustrated. I have two young boys and they don't understand why all of a sudden I loose my words or thoughts or I sound funny as they call it. My oldest one is 7 and he does ok. He helps me with my words and he answers the phone for me when I am having trouble talking. I just don't know what to do. My therapist wants to know more information about why it affects my speech but I have nothing to offer because I have been struggling to find information myself. Does anyone have suggestions?

Kym

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Submitted by CAITLIN MARY-ANNE on Tue, 2019-04-09 - 04:40

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Submitted by Anonymous1_5d04a0c45512f on Sat, 2019-06-15 - 03:45

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