Hi- I saw an old post from 2005 from someone who had a 10 yr old daughter that had a seizure at Denver airport. My daughter's boyfriend has now had his second seizure after traveling to Colarado to go snowboarding. The first time was about 5 years...

Hi all, I am new to this forum. I have a 21 month old with generalized tonic clonic seizures (recently diagnosed, but started over a year ago). We are trying to do all we can to help her as well as help everyone affected by epilepsy....

My boyfriend has epilepsy..He has grand mals..He has had epilepsy since he was 18..and now hes 31. From being on Depakote from the start he is finally off of it and weaned from KEPPRA to Lamictal now...For the past 2 yrs we have been together intimacy and...

Hello Everyone,  My name is Chris and I have had seizures since I was a baby. Through one of my dad's friends, I found a friend who also has seizures, only hers are a lot worse then mine. For example I can feel my seizures coming on minutes before...

Hello to everyone. I am looking for some answers. Let me start out by giving some background details. The person in my house (Amy) is a 28 yr old female. She was diagnosed with Epilepsy when she was 9 months old after a tumble down a flight of stairs.

HI I am wondering if anybody else has had the same problem as I am having. My Dr. has told me that I need to get some sort of Medical I.D. to wear. because as most of you know that when you have a seizure after you are unable...

I was recently diagnosed PMT, but i also suffer from Epilepsy. I went to my doctor recently & he perscribed me a drug for my PMT called, Citolopram, which i was told could weaken my epeleptic drug called Lamotrigine. I am a bit weary about taking this...

Can anyone enlighten me on this ? My Step Sister developed Epilepsy last October *2005* when she was 4. Does anyone know of a child with Autism & Epilepsy ? What are they like ? ------------------------- My Step...

MY SON IS A LITTLE OVER 2 YEARS OLD NOW, BUT HAS HAD SEIZURES SINCE 5 1/2 MONTHS OLD. AT FIRST HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH INFANTILE SPASMS, BUT NOW HAS OUT GROWN THOSE AND HAS A-TONIC DROP SEIZURES. I WAS WONDERING IF ANY PARENTS OUT THERE HAD ANY FEEDBACK ON...

hello,I'm wondering if anyone has any input or experience with this. My brother has epilepsy diagnosed in his early 20's. Seizures are mostly controlled by medication. However, he has episodes of extreme, nearly violent rage where...

My boyfriend of 16 months has epilepsy, he suffers from grand and petite seizure. The thing that scares me most is the fact that every grand maul seizure he has (which is about once a month) happens while he is walking or standing,...

Hello, My daughter - a 4 month old has been having around 15-20 seizures every day - on left side or right side for about 4 weeks now. We seem to be going to ER/ICUs, getting a shot of phenobarbitol and then, over a weeks period...

  Hey everyone... This is my first post.   I'm engaged to a wonderful man who also happens to have epilepsy.  He was diagnosed at age 2 and is now 36.  Never outgrew his seizures.  He typically calls his seizures "blackouts".  I...

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After two years without seizures, my 5 years old son had a seizure while sleeping, and it took more than 30 minutes to stop. I am terrified. How to let him safe during sleep? Is it safe to let him sleep in his own room, all alone? A baby monitor with video...

Hi my name is Lisa and I'm hoping someone out there can help me out with some questions regarding my husband epilepsy.

Hi,My son was diagnosed in spring 2003 after several mild seizures. He has been on carbitrol since then -150 mg 2xday. Yesterday his neurologist increased the dose to 200mg 2xday. He has been having difficulties in school...

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Dear Gherkin and Clive, Just wanted you both to know I am thinking of you and sending lots of prayers your way. Losing a child is so hard, no words to explain this. Losing a child to epilepsy ... while it feels unimaginable, it really points out how...

Hello, The Children's Hospital Boston is posting a multi-part series of epilepsy-related articles on its pediatric health blog, Thrive - http://childrenshospitalblog.org/ The series will touch upon a wide range of epilepsy-related topics - from the epilepsy...

Hello, The Children's Hospital Boston is posting a multi-part series of epilepsy-related articles on its pediatric health blog, Thrive - http://childrenshospitalblog.org/ The series will touch upon a wide range of epilepsy-related topics - from the epilepsy...

Hello to everyone. I am looking for some answers. Let me start out by giving some background details. The person in my house (Amy) is a 28 yr old female. She was diagnosed with Epilepsy when she was 9 months old after a tumble down a flight of stairs.

Hello to everyone. I am looking for some answers. Let me start out by giving some background details. The person in my house (Amy) is a 28 yr old female. She was diagnosed with Epilepsy when she was 9 months old after a tumble down a flight of stairs.

Hi,   My boyfriend has epilepsy, until I knew him I didn't know anything about epilepsy. Now I know somethings ... but still don't have any ideea of how to deal with it ...    Thank you for beeing here!    

My 26 y.o. daughter was diagnosed in Mar. of last yr. To make a short story long, I'm a lifelong epileptic, (have ins through husband's mil. ret.) her 4 y/o son is newly diagnosed, & is covered by medicare, she divorced, and last week...

Interested in talking to others who have toddlers with temporal lobe epilepsy

A couple of hours ago my fiancé had a seizure, I am sure about it. He doesn't believe me or remember it (says he had a dream but can't remember the dream). I woke up because he convulsed (jerked his whole body really hard once, maybe twice) then I noticed...

Hello, I am new to this sight.  I came here trying to find some help.  I am a caretaker of a 16 year old girl who has lennox gastaut syndrome, is blind, and mentally retarded.  The problem is that I don't know what...

When I was pregnant at about 7months, I complained to my doctor that I would feel rhytmic motions during the day in my womb.  They felt like small flutters, very rhytmic and frequent (not like when the baby would...

hi everyone, my name is sam and my mother was diagnosed with epilepsy about 5 years ago.  she has absent seizures mostly.  her seizures also effect her short term memory to where she'll ask the same question multiple times in a day.  she seems to be...

My child suffered a fractured skull nearly two years ago. My child is very smart and physically intune. E told the neurologist that something was occuring in her head and wanted to know when it was going to stop. The Neuro told us an EEG wouldn't show...

My son is 5 years old and was having partial seizures from Benign Occipital Epilepsy. He was 3 1/2 when we first saw this and his eyes shifted sharply to the left side and pulsed for about 1 min. They increased in severety over...

When I had my son's immunizations at his 4 month check-up he had a adverse reaction and had a seizure 20 hours after that lasted approximately 10 minutes.  He has had a total of 9 seizure since February 20th approx 1 week apart...

Ever since my son was old enough sit up and be spoon-fed he would occasionally have, what I know wonder is, a seizure. ...

Every few months, my husband has something happen where it's like he feels pulses in his head that interupt his concentration. they only last about 2 seconds but can happen every minute or two. This lasts about 5 days before it goes...

My three year old daughter has just been diagnosed with Epilepsy. We did an MRI and a 48 hour EEG, both of which came back normal. She has had eleven gran-mal seizures, since March 2004. Ten out of the eleven seizures were while she...

Does anyone know if an Epilepsy ribbon, like the Breast Cancer Ribbon exists? I would like to get one made, and have the profits go towards Epilepsy research. I am looking for anyone who might know anything about this. Please e-mail...

About 4 months ago now I had a seizure while driving. I hit a building. I woke up handcuffed in the back of a police car. I asked where I was. The officer told me I was drunk and had an accident. I told him "I don't drink,...

Hello my son (16) had his first grand mal seizure in July.  He is currently switching from Tegratol to to Lamictal  He had a 2nd seizure over Christmas (combination - we think of sleep deprivation - up until 2 (the...

hi i'm new here and looking for reassurance/help. let me start by saying i don't know where to get advice! my son is profoundly deaf and has suffered from horrific migraines which began 2 years ago.they are more or less under control now-he takes amiltryptiline,a...

Hello, I'm new to this site. My daughter is 19 months old and started having temporal lobe seizures a couple of weeks ago. Her seizures have lasted 45 min to an hour before we've been able to get them under control with medication....

I am the Mom of a 19 year old son that was diagnosed with primary generalized epilepsy 2 years ago after his first tonic-clonic seizure and it has been a bumpy road we've traveled ever since. 

 Hi! This is my first time to use the forum though I have read alot here!

Hello everybody! My name is Ingrid and my fiance' David has epilepsy. I didnt know until we got serious and now Im trying to get as informed as I can since our wedding date is Aug. 8, 2009. I want to learn so that I can treat with the respect he deserves....