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Feeling down- First seizure in 8 months
Sun, 04/02/2017 - 05:42Feel so down today. I had gone eight whole months without a seizure. I kept looking at the epilepsy society website at the people holding up their '1 year' posters, and I thought that would be me on August the 1st. Now the clock starts again. So gutted I could cry. I know what has caused it. It's the stress of my ex-husband refusing to give me a clean break order (we have been divorced 9 years!!) No property or savings. He is just being spiteful and now I have to take him to court at my expense. Now, thanks to that, I've had a seizure too. I hate epilepsy. It's blighted my life for 14 years.
Welcome PickleGreat to hear
Submitted by just_joe on Sun, 2017-04-02 - 11:04
Welcome PickleGreat to hear that you went 8 months without a seizure. Yes there are a lot of people that will go seizure free. But ask your neurologist how many will have seizures. Their job is to try and get everybody seizure free. They have to know all the procedures and meds that can do that. But they also know that not everybody will be seizure free. Yes stress can trigger a seizure. But there are also other triggers that aren't on the list. I had gone 3 years without one and was getting ready to take a driving test only to have a seizure. Oh well things happen.Sorry to hear about your divorce too. You can hate epilepsy. Or you can accept it and go on with your life knowing it is something you have to learn to deal with. Yes that may sound hard but it is a part of life. Do people with other ailments think about them every day or do they move on to the next day and do what they normally go? I have only been living with epilepsy for 50+ years, I also have a heart condition which I didn't know I had until about 1998. Both are controlled with medications. One med is to control the heart beat keeping it from beating too fast or too slow. The other meds are to keep electrical impulses from hitting wrong in my head. Hey I take them and go on. I have been working with the same group of neurologists since 1971 to either get seizure free or get them under the best control I can. Doc and I know I will never be completely seizure free. But we have worked together to check out all options. Different medications. The doc before him was doing the same thing. It takes a good relationship with your doctor and living your life not thinking about having a seizure to move forward. Today my seizures are focal seizures that last a few seconds and you would know nothing about them even if I was right next to you. Before Doc and I worked like we did those same seizures were 5-8 minutes long and the time to get back to normal was 15-45 minutes and sometimes longer. I'll take a few seconds and be able to do things like others do over a seizure that means I lose time in the day. which would you take.