Alrighty, so I am 21 now, almost 2 years ago I had a black out at 5am in the morning at work - I went to the hospital because I needed stiches in my chin, they ran some blood work and all that jazz and my white blood cell count came back high - that my body was fighting off a tiny minor infection.. later that week I had an ear infection so we chalked it up to my equalibrium was off and i feel - I have always been generally clumsy..

Anyone in Texas find a REASONABLE Part D w/Tegretol on the formulary? The ones that I've found have an exhorbinant premium PLUS a high co-pay! What's up with this? Why aren't the insurance companies honoring brand name AED's?! Any strategies will be appreciated...my neurologist refuses to prescribe generic AED's because of high breakthrough incidents. So even if I get a waiver for Brand Name as medically necessary, I'm going to pay $200/mo because of the high tier they put Tegretol on. My only option is to stop medicating, I guess. Tegretol is the only AED I've tolerated well.....

Hey and hello,

I am looking for information to see if I want to ask my doctor about seizures. It never occured to me that I might be having siezures until I was watching Royal Pains and the girl was diagnosed as having partial siezures - a girl who had almost identical symptoms that I do. Silly eh? But it got me thinking. Warning, I get long winded so only read if you want a long read!

Before I had the nicest body ever. I looked amazing. I ate so well and was happy. Now I'm depressed, gaining alarming amount of weight (this is horrible I'm a model) and I go to them gym often an am seeing NO results. we're talking 5 times a week. Then I get depressed and eat whatever is in my path and take lorazopam. Then I take (this is embarassing) laxidives..so I'm ruining my stomach, too! PS We're talking going from 152 lbs to 179 lbs in 1 month at 6 foot 2 and half..I feel soooo hopeless.

So I recently found out for myself that I've been having simple partial seizures for years. It came as kind of a shock and relief at the same time. Shock because I always thought epilepsy was just the tonic-clonic type, I didn't know anything else existed. And relief because there was finally an explanation for all the strange things I went through. I can thank an episode of Mystery Diagnosis for leading me to the answer :)

Hi everyone.  Been awhile since I posted anything.  I'm 23 years old and am taking 300 mg lamotrigine a day 2 mg folic acid and prenatal vitamins.  I've been trying to have a baby.  Turns out I can conceive but carrying it is a different story.  I miscarried in July around 4-5 weeks (very early) but everything looked good on the ultrasound (ovaries and such) and then had a pap in November which also came back fine.  So I thought okay I was just one of those unlucky first time pregnancies that end in miscarriage.  I'll try again.