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Epilepsy returning?
Wed, 03/15/2017 - 08:55Topic: New to Epilepsy.com
I had epilepsy as a very young child and it disappeared when I was about 10,11 years old over the past few weeks I keep going into "my own world" only for a minute or two could my epilepsy have returned
Comments
Seems like it. Consult a
Submitted by mereloaded on Thu, 2017-03-16 - 14:20
Seems like it. Consult a neurologist.
Ok thanks will do
Submitted by sm2k17 on Thu, 2017-03-16 - 16:22
Ok thanks will do
I was 19 years old when I had
Submitted by tom655 on Wed, 2017-03-15 - 13:45
I was 19 years old when I had my first grand mal seizure; my neurologist told me that, had I started having seizures as a child (9 or 10), I would most likely have outgrown it. As it was, I did not outgrow it. Today, at 62, I still take Dilantin and I do have petit mal seizures at least once or twice a year. Lots of my seizure activity is brought on by stress. There were doctors trying to tell me that I was having panic attacks, but I know the difference between them. My last grand mal was a year ago and the ER physician told me that my Dilantin level was 1. I keep it around 10 now; 15 years ago, when I tried to get my Dilantin level to 10, I felt as if I'd been "doped up". Thankfully, I don't have that problem anymore.