My son started having seisures at age 20.  He is now 29.  He was on dilantin  which controlled his seisures.   He started having seisures 3 months ago about one a month. He will lose his job if he has too many more seisures at work.  His Dr. put him...

My partner has been having seizures for about 2 years. He is currently taking Keppra twice a day. He is 23 and has a marked decrease in sex. It's hard to gauge what a 'normal' sex drive should be, but we have sex roughly once a month and he masturbates infrequently....

I have had epilepsy since i was 2 years old . It all started with a high fever. also since a child I had ADHD. since 2000 I haven't had a convulsion, most of my seizures were absence seizures, and they usually happen when I'm sleeping. I never had one in...

i am a 36 year old male, who began having seizures when i was approximately 24 years old. They were grand mal seizures and happened about once every 3 months. i finally started taking dilantin and the seizures stopped. about a year ago the seizures started...

HI I've had epilepsy 42 of my 53 years of life/ I have had surgery which have curtailed the seizues greatly. I am currently under employed, yet have my drivers license. feel that the medical profession trys to "down play " a person's...

My husband  is 28.He had his first seizure Jan 09.He had tests done and they saw nothing but a little seizure activity on the left side of his brain.They put him on Dilantin 3 times a day.In April or May he stopped taking the medicine b/c he thought he...

Hi  Im new to this site but had epilepsy for about 7-8 years, it started out of the blue following a 'heavy night out' I always get an aura which is a bit like a 'hang over' and palputations, a funny taste in my mouth and my vision going a bit...

Hi. I read on this website that AED,specially carbamazepine and phenytoin, affects sperm count,sperm mobility,fertility etc. Has this affected any of you or anybody you know? What did you do about it? I need advice. Thank...

I have been diagnosed with epilepsy since I was 13, but I have never had nocturnal seizure before. I typically have them after stressful activities or when I am physically working hard. Over the weekend, I woke up to my tongue feeling like I bit it...

It is a wonderful thing when you work all your life to do the right things. And all the world does is poop all over you. I have tried to do the right things i got a 4.0 grade average in school and cannot get a job because the state does not know what to do....

Please help me by giving me advice. My new boyfriend has a seizure straight after intercourse when he climaxes. He tells me it happens every time he climaxes and since his childhood (he is 32 years old now), and that he thinks and believes it is a...

I surf all over this site(and others) and it seems(to me) that it's mostly the women who are speaking out. I know there's more than the 5 or 6 guys Iv'e talked with with E. Where are they? Yeah, sexual issues seem to get us talking,...

I've had seizures since I was 9 and am 36 now needless to say that means through out my entire sex life and 15 years of marriage. But, last night for the first time ever I had a partial complex seizure after sex with my wife and wondered if this had happened...

Why do you suppose that more neurologists and epileptoloists do not mention that a majority of anti-seizure pills do often make "normal" sexual performance for men difficult--if not sometimes impossible when it comes to erections?...

Been real nervous last couple days .have suffered from nerves due to a bad childhood .Epilepsy makes it worse some times. Know that this is not good for epilepsy. Just need some encourgement from others like me out there. THANKS

If you have temporal lobe epilepsy could this be affect the brain stem and/or hypothalmus, and thus explain very slow and sometimes erratic pulse, low body temp and hypo thyroid symptoms despite a TSH of 2.2? With increasing motor automatims, could...

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Hi, I just had surgery two weeks ago, I am still recovering & am having alot of headaches, worse than when I was in the hospital, I am taking the required/suggested amount allowed to take to help w/ the pain.  The pain killers are supposed to last four...

hi, I am 37 years old and having epilepsy for 21 years, medication taken now is lamictal and dilantin. It seems like not much changes (healing) after trying many types of medicine and still having grand-mal's episode.

I'm a 21-year-old college student and just considered that these seldom "spells" I've been having for several years are possibly mild seizures. Here is a description of what happens: -The onset of the symptoms comes as gradually as a rush...

After trying all kind of prescrition drugs, I'm waiting for brain surgery, due to uncontroled grad-mal epileptic seizures. What if I lost my job because of my persistent seizures? What if I became homeless because of my persistent...

I would like to know if there's any immediate cure of such disease.

hey guys...I have a quastion..I have been on Dilantin(200mg a day) since last five years, never had a sz in

Hi, I was wondering if anybody had a problem like me where they only really have seizures when working out, and usually not that often.  I have several test with several doctors but nothing has come up, just wanted to know if anyone esle was getting...

My partner has been having seizures for about 2 years. He is currently taking Keppra twice a day. He is 23 and has a marked decrease in sex. It's hard to gauge what a 'normal' sex drive should be, but we have sex roughly once a month and he masturbates infrequently....

Dr. Svoboda has many excellent articles about the challenges of epilepsy on this very website in the Resources Section.  One example is: http://www.epilepsy.com/articles/ar_1064603177

does any one have sleep problem because of their epilepsy...

ALL OF MY SIEZURES ARE NOCTURNAL SO I CAN SHUT OFF MY VNS WHEN I AM AWAKE. WHAT IS THE EASIEST WAY FOR A MAN TO KEEP THE MAGNET ON THE VNS GENERATOR SO IT STAYS IN PLACE WHEN I AM MOVING AROUND?

g'day everyone  My name is darryl, 26 and am a major epileptic since I was 18 months old. From what I have been told from doctors, er records and family is that I had a febrile convulsion when I was a baby caused by a high temperature or fever. This...

Hello.  I have been on Dilantin for 10 years and I'm just realizing it's not for me.   i started low on Dilantin and now i'm up to 400 MG and it made me drowsy, sick and stupid so the DOC thought it was time for a change.  I tried Keppra for a week,...

I want to ask the men, how do you girlfriends/wives cope with your seizures?  I don't sleep in the same bed with my hubby because he has nighttime grand mals, and it scares me and I can't get any proper rest.

How does your spouse deal with your sez's? a while back we had issues with my wife and I over the sez's but she has gotten a bit better. Sometimes she still gets mad at me when I have little ones but I just try to go with the flow....

or maybe i'm in denial. but, the two times i've had a seizure i was partying a lot at the time. from what i've read they don't directly corrolate cocaine use and seizures, though lack of sleep seems to bring them about... so, if...

I have been somewhat puzzled over these past six months and especially on March 16th.  I have heard off and on the nursery rhymes of Hey Diddle Diddle, Mary had a Little Lamb, Little Miss Muffett, etc. out of nowhere. In fact, on 3/16/09 getting up at 4:00...

i am 43 years (young) i have had epilepsy my whole life. As i look more and more on this site i hear about many people who have had more luck with an epitologist than their neurologist. It alwayys seems that the neurologist can...

Im a 38 single black male from SC .I suffer from E.When I tell women I have E and I dont drive they either think the worst or run away before getting to me.My friends tell that I tell them too soon.I just like letting them know what...

0Had my first sezure on 12/22/08 which  happened to be my birthday . Had now idea about them . Plz if someone can give some advice on thins would be appreaiated. No longer have DL but need to work> Plz help with some sugestins on ho to sope with this

Well this forum is to discuss the auras I experience either right before or a day before I have a seizure. I had my first seizure when I was 17. I was out mowing my lawn when I was suddenly hit with a very vivid hallucination of the world being completly...

hello, first time post to this forum so by way of introduction 24 year old self employed mechanic diagnosed with having petit mal (absence?) seizures and some grand mal seizures  seizures started when i was 15-16 went to see a neurologist...

Hey guys, I just had my first seizure in two years. I have been epileptic all my life, but early in my life, 5-8 I had Abcense seizures. After a while, they vanished. fast forward to age 17 after an all night gaming session with some...

Dear Friends,I am from India, and my brother has epileptic and we have been giving medicine for the last 10 years and he doesn't have any problem for the last 7 years ( I mean no major attacks) and he is only getting bit shake on his left hand and may be we c

hi its Muneeb from Pakistan     i want to ask a question that is this disease is curable...??

If you're in the Los Angeles area and suffer from acute repetitive seizures, or is a caregiver for someone with acute repetitive seizures, you should check out this opportunity (www.epilepsyresearch.net). Healthcare Communications Group is reaching out to...

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Greetings to all. I have not logged on this Web in a while and I thought I'd give it a try.  I was just wondering if anyone else is suffers from this type of problem.  To make a long story short, I recently had VNS Surgery done 4 months ago for the focal...

I went to school for medical billing and graduated with a 4.0 grade average . I have applied for almost 570 jobs on my own . I am supposed to recieve help from the school i went to no help . This is after they made me a priority. Any suggestions for other...

I am only 35yrs old and even with the AED's I take, I have never had trouble with erections. My problem is achieving the "male" orgazim. Physicly, my Doc says every thing I need is there and its all in working order. I discussed...

As a result of a head injury 24 years ago, I now have temporal lobe epilepsy. I am about to launch the pilot survey for my doctorate (PhD research) on quality of life in epilepsy. I need as many volunteers as possible to test the designed...