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Topic: Family & Friends

A place for those who care for and about people with epilepsy - caring for yourselves as well as those around you.

7 weeks with no seizures

01/2004 | 1 Comments

Hi,My name is Jackie I have had JME since I was 13 years. I have had only 7 or 8 grand mals during my life, however I have been having myoclonic jerks...
Scared saw 1st seizure have question

01/2004 | 4 Comments

My husband had a seizure about two months ago all his test came back fine we decided to go ahead and for him to be put on Dilantin because his job...
first signs...

01/2004 | 3 Comments

i feel very down and depressed. i just learned from my sister that my my nephew was lying unconscious on his bed after 48 hours from the time he fell...
fears about next child

01/2004 | 1 Comments

My husband and I are going to try for a second baby, but I am concerned about the birth. With my first, I had a scheduled c-section. The birth went...
VNS

01/2004 | 1 Comments

I was just curious to find out if anyone had this installed, and their results. I was diagnosed with petit mal seizures when I was 16 years old. I am...
Outgrown Epilepsy

01/2004 | 7 Comments

I am 36 years old and had my last seizure at the age of 14. It was probably what is now being called BRE but it was always called a petit-mal/temporal...

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