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Epilepsy and Memory Loss
Sun, 10/08/2006 - 19:36Comments
Re: Epilepsy and Memory Loss
Submitted by jbmeeker on Sun, 2012-09-16 - 00:57
Hello, my name is Joe and I just turned 59 years old and have had epilepsy for 46 years starting from the age of 13. I used to have petti-mal seizures avg. 4/day until in 1996. I then finally had brain surgery where they cut part of your brain out thinking they are removing the part where your seizures begin when I was 43 yrs old. The surgery was a total failure because I then started to have 4-5 grand-mal seizures with side effects of auras throughout every day. Part of my problem was that I forced myself to work for 6 1/2 years after the surgery. I had to put food on the table for me and my kids so I didn't give up. Just being stupified by all of the medicine I took at that time made me very angry inside because I didn't even have the ability to think, so that could have possibly resulted in me having so many seizures a day. (and night by the way too). My short-term memory loss has been dramatic which started immediately after the surgery. It seems to me that I've had the memory loss equal to that of someone 80 yrs old or older. I suppose that could have been because I was on avg. 27 pills a day trying to treat it. I thought that the Drs. were just using me as a guinea pig to see if every different medicine in the book could work for me, but they never found anything to control them. But so much for my sob-story.
I would like to recommend that no matter whether a person is growing old or has had a bad memory loss they should get a portable voice recorder, the size of a cell-phone to carry around at all times. It may take a while for you to remember to even use it, or to play back the messages, but overall I got to a point to where I use it all of the time. I can then review my messages and eventually remember even the people I am putting names on. I can't remember their face, but I can eventually can recognize them with repeated discussions. It takes time to get to a point to where you will even remember to review your messages but hang in there and Lord willing, He will give you help so you don't have to write anything down.
Now what I will present to you my testimony which is definitely not to make offense to anybody. There is no way that I want to do any harm or to put a stumbling block in front of anyone so please bear with me because it has been our Lord and His Word that has brought me through the 10 year recovery that I had to go through. Without Him and His Word I know that I wouldn't be alive. I am just wanting to share my personal testimony to everyone.
I feel very sad for anyone having epilepsy which is a 'thorn in the flesh' in their life because it can be very depressive in our life and eventually be bothersome to those around us. All I can recommend, is the best way to live for me has been in a slow and quiet town where things are going my speed instead of in a fast-paced city or always being around bands or loud arenas or music as I was when I was working. I had to put up with 5 stereos blasting besides all of the machinery in our shop. It wasn't until I moved into a small town and stayed away from loud noise (even such as blasting noise coming from stereos instead of decent music or gatherings with too much loud talking). After having surgery a person can become extremely sensative to this type of thing. All I can do besides this is pray that our good Lord Jesus will come very soon and give us a new body when taking us up into Heaven (1 Thess. 4:13-18; 1 Cor. 15:50-57; Phil. 3:19-21). Please read the Word of God very often and Lord willing, He will comfort you to where you will never want to get away from it.
God humblized me by having the surgery just so I would be so stupified that He made me willing to finally repent from my sins when He gave me the "effectual" call to be saved for eternal life. When I finally realized how much I had been sinning in my life and had added that much more suffering on our Dear Lord Jesus hanging on the cross for us, I couldn't help but break down repenting from my sins, crying for Him to totally take over my life, because I couldn't do it by myself! I gave Him my entire life because He gave His total life up for me! But then WOW! Immediately all things became new by Him giving me a new born-again regenerated spiritual life to where He has taken my desire to want to sin against Him no longer at all! It's so hard to believe that He made it so easy for me to know for sure that I was actually saved but Scriptures prove it, because it is the ONLY place that we can find the REAL Truth in life.
Lord willing, you will at least pray for our Dear Lord Jesus to guide you to come to Him submitting your entire life unto Him, repenting from your sins, not just asking for forgiveness. May this be to the glory of His grace; to the One and Only Great Physician, Our Lord Jesus Christ; and to feed upon the best nourishment that anyone can ever take in their life His Holy Word. I really do pray for all of you who have been patient enough to read all of this and totally understand that without Him we can do nothing (John 15:4-5; Rom. 8:5-9). But with Him we will be given the strength to get through our hard lives with our ailments. Yes, we will still be given many trials and tribulations in our life but with His strength we can do whatever is within His will. Please understand that it is His will to be done, so the least we can do is to submit to Him asking Him to lead us with the Holy Spirit giving us the ability to be able to do what is really necessary for our eternal spiritual life to be to the glory of His grace. To really see if you have really been save read 2 Pet. 2; Gal. 5:16-26; John 3:3-7; 2 Cor. 5:17. If your fit all of these descriptions also read these following verses as they will give you confidence that you have nothing to fear or worry about because they will prove to you that we cannot lose our salvation like so many false teachers are preaching today: Phil. 4:8-13; 1 Pet. 1:2-9; John 6:37; 10:27-29; Rom. 8:1; 28-39; Titus 3:3-7; 2 Cor. 5:17; Heb. 12:1-2; 13:5.
Hopefully this testimony has or will be an uplifting thing to you. With all my love that He has shared with me to everyone, Joe
Hello, my name is Joe and I just turned 59 years old and have had epilepsy for 46 years starting from the age of 13. I used to have petti-mal seizures avg. 4/day until in 1996. I then finally had brain surgery where they cut part of your brain out thinking they are removing the part where your seizures begin when I was 43 yrs old. The surgery was a total failure because I then started to have 4-5 grand-mal seizures with side effects of auras throughout every day. Part of my problem was that I forced myself to work for 6 1/2 years after the surgery. I had to put food on the table for me and my kids so I didn't give up. Just being stupified by all of the medicine I took at that time made me very angry inside because I didn't even have the ability to think, so that could have possibly resulted in me having so many seizures a day. (and night by the way too). My short-term memory loss has been dramatic which started immediately after the surgery. It seems to me that I've had the memory loss equal to that of someone 80 yrs old or older. I suppose that could have been because I was on avg. 27 pills a day trying to treat it. I thought that the Drs. were just using me as a guinea pig to see if every different medicine in the book could work for me, but they never found anything to control them. But so much for my sob-story.
I would like to recommend that no matter whether a person is growing old or has had a bad memory loss they should get a portable voice recorder, the size of a cell-phone to carry around at all times. It may take a while for you to remember to even use it, or to play back the messages, but overall I got to a point to where I use it all of the time. I can then review my messages and eventually remember even the people I am putting names on. I can't remember their face, but I can eventually can recognize them with repeated discussions. It takes time to get to a point to where you will even remember to review your messages but hang in there and Lord willing, He will give you help so you don't have to write anything down.
Now what I will present to you my testimony which is definitely not to make offense to anybody. There is no way that I want to do any harm or to put a stumbling block in front of anyone so please bear with me because it has been our Lord and His Word that has brought me through the 10 year recovery that I had to go through. Without Him and His Word I know that I wouldn't be alive. I am just wanting to share my personal testimony to everyone.
I feel very sad for anyone having epilepsy which is a 'thorn in the flesh' in their life because it can be very depressive in our life and eventually be bothersome to those around us. All I can recommend, is the best way to live for me has been in a slow and quiet town where things are going my speed instead of in a fast-paced city or always being around bands or loud arenas or music as I was when I was working. I had to put up with 5 stereos blasting besides all of the machinery in our shop. It wasn't until I moved into a small town and stayed away from loud noise (even such as blasting noise coming from stereos instead of decent music or gatherings with too much loud talking). After having surgery a person can become extremely sensative to this type of thing. All I can do besides this is pray that our good Lord Jesus will come very soon and give us a new body when taking us up into Heaven (1 Thess. 4:13-18; 1 Cor. 15:50-57; Phil. 3:19-21). Please read the Word of God very often and Lord willing, He will comfort you to where you will never want to get away from it.
God humblized me by having the surgery just so I would be so stupified that He made me willing to finally repent from my sins when He gave me the "effectual" call to be saved for eternal life. When I finally realized how much I had been sinning in my life and had added that much more suffering on our Dear Lord Jesus hanging on the cross for us, I couldn't help but break down repenting from my sins, crying for Him to totally take over my life, because I couldn't do it by myself! I gave Him my entire life because He gave His total life up for me! But then WOW! Immediately all things became new by Him giving me a new born-again regenerated spiritual life to where He has taken my desire to want to sin against Him no longer at all! It's so hard to believe that He made it so easy for me to know for sure that I was actually saved but Scriptures prove it, because it is the ONLY place that we can find the REAL Truth in life.
Lord willing, you will at least pray for our Dear Lord Jesus to guide you to come to Him submitting your entire life unto Him, repenting from your sins, not just asking for forgiveness. May this be to the glory of His grace; to the One and Only Great Physician, Our Lord Jesus Christ; and to feed upon the best nourishment that anyone can ever take in their life His Holy Word. I really do pray for all of you who have been patient enough to read all of this and totally understand that without Him we can do nothing (John 15:4-5; Rom. 8:5-9). But with Him we will be given the strength to get through our hard lives with our ailments. Yes, we will still be given many trials and tribulations in our life but with His strength we can do whatever is within His will. Please understand that it is His will to be done, so the least we can do is to submit to Him asking Him to lead us with the Holy Spirit giving us the ability to be able to do what is really necessary for our eternal spiritual life to be to the glory of His grace. To really see if you have really been save read 2 Pet. 2; Gal. 5:16-26; John 3:3-7; 2 Cor. 5:17. If your fit all of these descriptions also read these following verses as they will give you confidence that you have nothing to fear or worry about because they will prove to you that we cannot lose our salvation like so many false teachers are preaching today: Phil. 4:8-13; 1 Pet. 1:2-9; John 6:37; 10:27-29; Rom. 8:1; 28-39; Titus 3:3-7; 2 Cor. 5:17; Heb. 12:1-2; 13:5.
Hopefully this testimony has or will be an uplifting thing to you. With all my love that He has shared with me to everyone, Joe
Re: Epilepsy and Memory Loss
Submitted by Silver Tulips on Sat, 2012-02-25 - 15:07
Yes, I just know that I keep a diary for everything and write it all down even the smallest things and write them down. It is hard but the best thing is to write it down keep it with you. Remember that the reason why God has given you Epilepsy is because you can cope with it and your strong. God bless.