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Memory

Thu, 12/03/2015 - 17:45

Hello everyone!

A couple months ago, before school started, I was diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy. I am now 14 and have been having seizures all my life, and we didn't even know they were seizures until I went into my normal pediatric around May to talk about "episodes" I've been having my whole life. I was just wondering if some of the memory issues I've been having all my life have been happening because of my epilepsy. 

Here are some of the issues:

When people give me instructions to do, and they give me multiple ones, I can only remember one or two of them.

*When someone asks me a question or when I'm taking a test, my mind goes completely blank and I can't remember anything, even if I was thinking about it all day and I know it by heart.*

When I'm reading something, I have to read is four and five times over for me to actually understand what I read (Like it's not that I don't get what it says, it just takes a ton of tries to actually remember and know what it says.). Most of the time I try to concentrate, but I keep telling myself I need to concentrate and that just makes me understand even less.

 

There are almost certainly more issues I have, I probably just can't remember them.

The one with the * is the main question I wanted to ask, I just wanted to have more than just one question in this post. Thank you very much!

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