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Hello everyone. My name is Rob. I'm in my mid 40's and I live in Germany. I was diagnosed at birth or shortly after birth as epileptic, along with my identical twin. We both took dilantin until we were 11 or 12 or so, at which time, we started to have siezures again. The problem was, no one knew that they were partial complex TLE that mimicked paranoid schizophrenia. My twin had it worse than I and ended up gettin put on thorazine, which led to a suicide. No one knows if it was intentional or if it was the drug. I didn't know that I was having seizures for the longest time. It wasn't until the Internet that I was able to start researching why I was eating those little pale yellow triangle-shaped pills every morning. The seizures started to get progressively worse as I got older. I'm not sure if this is common or not. Mine are triggered mostly by sounds. I would go into an aura state of deja vu that one time lasted nearly two weeks. I was seeing a psychologist at the time and he said "good for you." I've been kind of an outcast from family and an outsider at any jobs I've had. I'm fairly intelligent, so I've ended up doing a lot of university work, since university seemed to be the only place I could fit in. It is the strangest thing to experience schizophrenic symptoms but still be cognizant, and at least in university, all I had to do was take notes. The good news is that I have married a German lady and moved to Germany where the health care system is quite excellent. I've gone to see a neurologist who promptly put me on Ergenyl Chrono (1000 mg/day) and within 2 days I felt normal, which is kind of funny, since I didn't know what normal was to begin with. I have been taking it for a little over a week now and I am noticing some changes. I am having to deal with emotions on a completely different level, but it seems tiring at the same time. One of the major changes that happened almost instantly was that I no longer had paranoid symptoms. In fact, I was ready to be around people and actually make emotional contact with them. I'm not trying to make this out to be some kind of miracle; I know there's going to be some challenges, but I am amazed. That's my story. There's a lot more, but I will just wait to see who responds and what anyone has to say about my experience. Rob