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My epilepsy might be coming back. Help!!!

Sun, 03/15/2015 - 01:26

I don't know much about epilepsy but was diagnosed with it when i was 5 and when i was 9 i was taken of medication and basicly epilepsy free, I am now 22 and i know epilepsy runs in our family my mum has it and gets it off and on she is adobted so i don't know much about her biological parents but i know her biological sibling and father have it too.Anyway 2 weeks ago i went to a party and ended up geting in to a bit of a fight got quite a few real bad knocks to the head. The next day i felt a bit more than just hungover felt like everything was rushing and i felt weak and like i was going to faint (this is the kind of thing i use to get leading up to me going off medication) that passed and everything has been ok until today i went to the supermarket and felt this way again and when i was driving home i had to pull over because i felt like i couldn't see properly and just didn't feel right. So any advice? I'm thinking about go to the doctor this week 

Comments

Sprc. Ed. When did alcohol;

Submitted by nightfighter@nc.rr.com on Tue, 2015-04-07 - 16:00
Sprc. Ed. When did alcohol; become a seizure trigger? I have never heard about this in my 50 years dealing with Epilepsy. I do know that alcohol and anti-convulsant  medications do not work well together. If this is what you are trying to say please clarify.

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