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I was Diagnose with Epilepsy when I was 9 now I am 31.
Mon, 12/31/2012 - 11:11Topic: Epilepsy.com Help
Hello,
I haven'get anything since the age of nine. I was under medication until the age of 14. Now I am 31 and I was wondering if epilepsy ever comes back. I have been getting weird symptoms like dizzy, light headed, daja vo, and also that feeling like if I go blank and feel like i tiny bug getting squish. But it only happens to me for like a minute or so and at that moment I am not aware of it after is over I start having the feeling like if i was dreaming but in reality I was awake and then I start feeling sad and more strange ...Uhg..Is it coming back?
Please help...!
Thank you Karla
Oh right now I am very dizzy so if it doesn't make much since please excuse me.
Re: I was Diagnose with Epilepsy when I was 9 now I am 31.
Submitted by pkdz on Mon, 2012-12-31 - 22:39
Yes, epilepsy can come back (or change). I went off medication in my early 20s, because I hadn't had a seizure since the age of three. A few years later, I had a tonic-clonic seizure and went back on phenobarbitol (which had controlled my seizures for all those years). Then when I was 38 years old, I started having partial complex seizures. Dr. tried new medications (Tegretol and then also Keppra), but the seizures continued. My neurologist explained that age can be a factor.