Hi everyone.  I imagine this subject has come up many times before.  Does anyone feel very different a while after surgery, so much so that you feel exposed and insecure?  I am in college now, and I find myself still shying away from public events, and getting paranoid about who thinks what of me.  Yeah, I know, why should I care?  I have always been socially inept.  I suppose this is the next step...  Can anyone relate?

Can anyone tell me what are the criteria for differentiatiating a sz from a manic episode, I was diagnosed a bipolar for years and given ineffective meds but now my new psychiatrist says the spells which I thought was just shaking with "fear " were really SPs. I remember these shaking spells afterwards and dont lose consciousness during them but when they finish there are a few seconds when there are NO thoughts in my head and  all my thoughts are very slow motion  for the fisrt few minutes.when they occur again .

I'm 43, a regular cyclist and runner. Yesterday, I was taking a lunchtime ride. My buddy and I stopped by his daughter's school so he could deliver some medicine to her. He went inside, I stopped my bike. The next thing I remember is becoming alert inside the nurse's office at the school. Apparently EMS had been contacted and checked on me while I was unconscious (I have no memory of that). I gradually became aware of where I was and what date it was, etc.

I take lamictal 3pills in a.m.and 3 at p.m.and phenabarbital,1 in a.m and one and a half at p.m., I still have  seizures. I am trying to find out if maybe the pheno is weakening my lamictal....I have at least one seizure every other day. My doctor said my level for lamictal is real low and I don't understand, cause I take it every day. I never miss one single dose. Can anyone help me to find out, I am tired of waking up on the floor.I have been lucky I haven't broke any bones.

My 6 yr old son who started having seizures at 22 months old, was fairly stable until 12/ 18/09 and since then has had 12 seizures and no one can identify the underlying cause. We are tired of treating the symptom and want to treat the problem. Anyone w/ similar experiences?

Hi,

I have had epilepsy 15 years. Uncontrolled the whole time. I am on a new medication Vimpat and a birthcontrol (Ortho Micronor since I have catamenial epilepsy) I am to the point right now where I am 28 years old, totally dependent on my parents, I live at home, not allowed  to work, have few friends, and feel like crap all the time. I would never commit suicide because I know how that would effect my mother but today she told me that her and my father are walking on egg shells around me. 

The Story of Angelina & James....and epilepsy

Hi All,

First, I should explain that I have been diagnosed nearly twenty years ago with JME, and that it originates in my Occipital Lobe. I experience tonic-clonic, myoclonic jerks, as well as absence seizures. I stopped taking my medications regularly in October last year - and about a month ago - actually, yes - exactly a month ago, had a tonic-clonic. I will not be skipping out on meds because they're expensive anymore.

Hello!

I am just out of University, off of my parents health care, and going on to new health care at my future employers. While on my current healthcare, I just pay a standard copay, United (my future insurance company) is saying that I'm going to have to pay 20% of every visit. You guys. I have a lot of seizures. Grand Mal, tonic clonic, on the floor, pee your pants, bite your tongue seizures, trying not to break your collarbone. Again. I'm also young, stupid, and very very broke. They are paying me $22,200 a year, but I don't know how I'm going to make this work.