How long?

hi I,ll go first. actually I,ve never been seizure free. But for around the first 2 yrs. It was just automatically assumed that the sz. was caused by alcohol. The first seizure I had was similar to a stroke and I was "very" drunk when it happened .I did not wake up for 2 days and it left me disabled on the left side and a lot of assumptions were made. so any time I had a seizure and was drunk (every 2 wks) they just wrote me off. I had a seizure at work and with that they made me go to the doctors and I was put on dilantin but was still having them (sober) but mostly on weekends and I just played it off and did not go to doctors. I had 3 seizures in one day this summer and returned to a doctor and am currently on tegretol and trying to see if something works . Rick

Its been almost 5 years now for me,,,and i am down to where i am only sezing about once a month or two months now,,,so that is great for me,,, alot better than what i started with,,, i feel that i am at a comfortable spot with meds at this point that i can move on to other medical problems now and leave this where it is for now,,, i have complex partial,, and cluster seziures,,and i take 1200 mg of carbamazpine and 300 mg of topamax with a script of ativan for when i have more than 3 seziures in a row,, but i dont have drop seziures at this point and the ativan is to avoid grand mals according to my ep neuro.. .. now post a question on here as to who actually has faith in thier ep neuro and it would be interesting to see what kind of response you would get. (grin)