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stop criminalizing epilepsy
Wed, 02/03/2016 - 16:38looking to start the above campaign : stop criminalizing epilepsy. too many adults with epilepsy find themselves in jail/prison due to a seizure in public being interpreted as resisting arrest.etc. let alone the numerous AEDs that cause fits of rage,Keppra is notorious for doing so. the statistics are outrageous for the number of people in prison with epilepsy,their affliction having put them there. when are these bad drugs going to be taken off the market. i get the impression that they're used as a cattle prod so that adults with epilepsy will end up there. why else are there so few of us out and about when it is not so rare a condition.?
Amy Jo
Submitted by just_joe on Tue, 2016-02-09 - 12:01
Amy Jo The seizures I have today are focal seizures lasting a few seconds/ I take a medication right after the seizure to keep it from clustering. So would the VNS help me when I have a seizure every 8-14 days? I can be talking to you and standing in front of you and you would no nothing about the seizure. I might stop for a few seconds while talking but I pick up right where I left off and my regular doc didn't know it was a seizure. He thought I was thinking of which word I wanted to use. Since the same seizures I had in his office years ago lasted 5-8 minutes and recovery time was 15-45 minutes