I had my first grand mal seizure when I was 18 and a senior in high school/. It occurred early one morning when a friend and I were out deer hunting on his parents land. Anyways a friend of his family's was also out there hunting and saw me have my first seizure. I was shortly thereafter escorted to the emerency room. I was seen by a doctor who then could determine no reason for the seizure so he then declared me epileptic. I was put on Dilantin and stayed on it for a couple of years after starting college.

Anybody taking keprra for partiol complex and tonic clonic seizures and having success? My 17 year old son is on it, but they have to keep on highering the medication, he is now on 1750mg twice a day. He just had a video eeg, and it showed his partiol compex seizures are coming from his left temporal lobe. The keprra seems to be giving him some sseizure control but, just when we think he's not going to have anymore, the end of the begining of a new month comes and he ends of having them again.

I'm starting to think I may have status epilepticus. I have just recently had my first EEG and I'm sure in order to get it diagnosed you must be wired and monitored for days. But, I usually wake up feeling really nauseous (could be the meds) during the day sometimes ill feel "activity" in my brain that lasts sometimes an hour and may or may not cause a physical sensation. Sometimes it really effects my sleep , for example, last night I went to bed at 2 am thinking I was gonna sleep till at least 11. Didn't happen. I woke up at 6 50 with the feeling of being on the verge of seizure.

For those of you who have jobs how do they repond to you having seizures? I'd like to have a job but everytime I get a job and have a seizure the always do the same thing. They put me on medical leave and want me to get a note from my doctor saying that I can work. The problem with that is that I'm completely capable of performing my job but as soon as I have a seizure I'm paralyzed for that moment. So I was curios to know how your employers respond to you having seizures at your job.

My children (3) are always concerned whether they will..."CATCH IT".., my seizure disorder. I noticed the other day my daughter 15 year-old spacing out (for a lack of a better term) what I would regard as a mild siezure. I said to her, "Are you ok?" trying to snap her out of it...She says"What, what"...

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Hello,

I'm 17 yrs old.

When i'm out in public, i phase out. i have been an epileptic for a couple of years.

I have had seizure my whole life, they were Petite Mal when I was a little girl but never treated they lasted up until I had my oldest son at the age of seventeen, and they just went away for 12yrs. and one day I started having the same feeling I used to get when I was little 3 days later I had my first Grand Mal seizure in front of my 2 boys. I was on several diffrent Meds. trying to find one that I could tolerate we finally settled on Depakote. and I only had one more after that a year later. I went 4 yrs. seizure free so meds were discontinued I went another 3yrs. with out any seizures.