Hey there! I'm new to this place, and was after a little info. On boxing day 2009 I woke up with a swollen tongue, really tired muscles (not sore, just tired), a pinprick rash on my shoulders and a small amount of blood on the floor next to my bed. The...

I am a 45 yr old female with 8 kids and am currently living with my boyfriend.I have the usual stress and have been on disability from work for a year now.I had a mild stroke and my recovery was slow.Four months after I knew something was wrong.

I am 13 and have just started getting twitches in my arm and leg on the right side. these are really small twitches not jerks and almost look like nerve spasms. i have had them on and off one or two a week lasting mainly for a few...

Hello everyone.. I am new to my.epilepsy.com I am a Pharmacy student at McMaster University and I have been selected to do a presentation on epilepsy I have a questions I am hoping someone would be kind enough to answer for me.. I have done a lot of research...

Hi,   I have lived with epilepsy since my late teens (youth onset) and thankfully it has been controlled for many years. I was diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy and suffered tonic-clonic seizures despite the fact that there was no (detectable)...

My 6 years old son had abnormal EEG and his neurologist told us that he does not have seisures, he just has tics. The EEG report says he has very frequent epileptiform discharges during drowsiness and sleep from the centrotemporal...

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Before going into my story and question, I should mention that at this time, I have not yet been diagnosed with epilepsy, nor am I sure whether what I experienced was a seizure.  I am undergoing several tests to investigate this further, but wanted to post...

I am 35 and recently found that I have grey matter heterotopia. I am currently on seizure meds that have made the seizures less harsh but I still get them. I have memory loss, confusion, dizzy spells (head-rushes), body numbness, tingling, vision impairment...

Hi there. I am new and really need some advice.

Hi, I am from the UK and I am 20. I have been having twiches or jerks since I was 17, I have 3 or 4 a month, it always results in bruises. About 3 months ago I had a huge seizure, chewed my tongue, wet myself, I can't remeber anything about that day...

Hello, I am the mother of a 5year son who has Sturge Weber Syndrome, epilepsy--He had a left temporal lobectomy in Nov 2010. I am looking for anyone who has also had the surgery--young or mature! Just wanted to hear your experiences. We are doing very well....

Hi, I'm a newbie to the website and to epilepsy.

Hello again everyone!  This is Michael's Mom.  We FINALLY went to the Neuro for the results of his MRI.  He only had two generalized seizures, abnormal front left EEG, no family history, all else normal.  The MRI was normal!  So, no answers for us. ...

I've been looking around eplilepsy.com for a couple of days now, and I decided to jump in to see if anyone at all as experienced something similar to what me and my family are going through.  Any information that anyone can provide will be greatly appreciated. 

Hi Everyone I am sure there are other threads like this but I am still finding my way around the site, so any answers here would be greatly appreciated - sorry if it is tedious of me.. Basically my questions are what type of seizure did I have (it was...

Child may not be able to remember long enough to learn it - How common is this? Experiences? Bilateral Temporal Lobe Foci If the onset of seizures occurs before the child is five years of age and appears in both temporal lobes, the...

Hi everyone. My name is Nicola. Im 22 and new to this site. I have a few queries. I was diagnosed with heteratopia of the grey matter when I was 15. Ive had it since I developed in the womb. This affects the front right temporal lobe, and causes epilepsy,...

ok my son is 10 years old during the day or anytime his jaw locks he looses all muscle controll he turn purple sometime he looses concienceness, he is so pale and pasty looking after words and recentally they have been getting worse where after words he cant...

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Hi,  I am 35 and have had these smells which come every few months.  It has happened for many years. It isn't a smell of anything specific, like smoke, but it is always the same.  I can also "feel" the smell in my head.  Sometimes, I can...

I've been raped multiple times and am now going through psychotherapy for several disorders caused by intense trauma.  I'm not even sure if this IS seizing, but I found out that nonepileptic seizures can be caused by emotional trauma, and I wondered if...

I'm new here and does anyone out there have success stories to share?  It seems all I've read so far are not that comforting.

At the end of november, i had a tonic clonic seizure in a variety store and that was my first seizure ever. after running the tests and such, i got the results yesterday. I have epilepsy. I also have to go for a 48 EEG test, and had to have bloodwork completed....

hi  i am michelle i have  seizures since birth . and i just found out i had 2 strokes at birth .

My son has had episodes of absence seizures, however, undiagnosed. Any advice on electrical components and episodes. He also has no memory of episodes. Anyone help??

Constant nausea is effecting quality of my daughters life.  We have been to every doctor we can think of and no test show positive for anything that could cause nausea.  She has tbi which resulted in temporal lobe seizures.  The accident was almost 7 years...

Hello Everyone,  I am a 31 yr old female mother of 2. I don't know where to start really. I have been fainting for the past 2 years, i went to a neuologist who performed and EEG and said everything was normal. They've run tests, hospitalized me and...

  hi my partner was diagnosed with epilepsy 6 years ago after a being attacked luckily no brain damage but the trauma may have caused it he is now 43.  It got worse when his brother died and recently his mother died too things have got weird as...

I am not a diagnosed epileptic, having never had a grand mal.  However both my sister and mom are epileptic and my symptoms have led my nuerologist to say he believes I am epileptic, even though a hr EEG revealed nothing.  I just want to know if anyone...

I am brand new to the site. I suffer from absent seizures and was diagnosed last month but am awaiting to see a neurologist. I came on here to get to know a community for support and met some fellow named Cougar whose girlfriend had just passed on. I spoke...

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Hello everyone.  I am new here and scared out of my mind!   This will probably get long so I apologize in advance.

Greetings, all! Six weeks ago I was diagnosed with "idiopathic seizure disorder." At my follow up appointment today I asked my neuro for my diagonsis and he said the same thing. He doesn't seem to know what kind of seizures I am having....

Hello, My names Chris this is my first post and I was looking for some insight and advice for dealing with my epilepsy.

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My son is 15, was diagnosed with Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy and was waiting for dr. appointment when he had a grand mal seizure. He was terrified, I was terrified, the whole family is scared.This is our first experience with seizures like this. He's only...

Hello everyone,  I received my diagnosis of epilepsy today a week after I was discharged from the hospital for what we initially thought was a stroke.  Before I was discharged from the hospital, the neurologist told me he had ruled out a stroke,...

I am new to this forum. My son who is now 22 has been having seizures since age 16. He had 5 horrible Grand Mal seizures over 2 years usually after a night of drinking. Finally he was put on Dilantin and went seizure free for a couple years. He is now having...

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Hello everyone and first off thank you for reading this. 

Brain tumor/seizure in 9 year old child?

Hi to all members of the forum At long last i think i may have realised via this and another website that what i first experinced when 18 (23 years ago!) was a type of simple partial seizure. I would be grateful for members views as to whether this could be SpS.

My 5 year old daughter has just had her second generalized cloic-tonic seizure in 6 months. She had an abormal EEG and a normal MRI. She is a very happy healthy girl. Both of her seizures occured in her sleep and she was exhausted the first time and tired/getting...