I'll introduce myself.

My name is Charity Tanner and I'm 27 years old. I live in Oklahoma. I was diagnosis with grand mal seizures at the age of 12 (exactly the same time that I started puberty). They first said that I developed the seizures because of lack of sleep. So, as a teenager, I not only was on a different medication every two months but I was sleeping about 12 hours a day and still having them every other day. As an adult, since they said that I didn't have epilepsy, I'm not considered disabled so I have to pay for my own medical bills now and can't afford to, so I haven't seen a doctor in over 10 years or been on medication for my seizures. But I have to say that I personally think that the doctors I had as a teenager are wrong. If I slept 12 hours a day and still having seizures, then it shouldn't be from lack of sleep. I told the doctors this and they told me I was crazy and didn't know what I was talking about because I was a kid. Well, now I'm in school for Medical Office Assissant and it turns out that I did know what I was talking about even though I was a kid. I have been though alot with my seizures. I've lost friends, boyfriends, respest from my family, jobs, and I've deal with depression all the time. I can't drive myself anywhere, can't be left alone with my own children since I've had one when I was. I don't have them but once or twice a month now and that is when I'm on my period or days within starting. To tell you the truth I think that i have a hormonal inbalance or something and that's the cause of my seizures. But since I can't see a doctor at this time I can't have that theory checked out.