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Husband not accepting of my Epilepsy
Fri, 02/13/2015 - 17:06I was diagnosed with Myoclonic Epilepsy a year ago and I cant seem to get my husband on the same page as me. When I had my Grand Mal last February he claimed afterwards that it was from "falling asleep on the potty." Now a year later and multiple medications, hes now saying that I would be fine if the stress was gone. If that happened he thinks that I would be ok off my meds. I am currently having anywhere from 2-3 seizures a week, though they are petite mal or complex partial seizures. I know that I am having them, I don't think it would be smart for me to stop my medication but I cant get him to see eye to eye with me on this. Does anyone have any advice on how to get him to be accepting of the fact that I have epilepsy.
My step father had a problem
Submitted by just_joe on Sun, 2015-02-15 - 10:15
My step father had a problem with accepting my epilepsy. It wasn't until I had one in the living room while he was there. Rather then moving the coffee table he tried to hold me in place. I tossed him over my body. I was 13-14 and he weighed 215 lbs. We had a weight set and the whole set weighed 120 lbs and he knew I couldn't pick the bar bell and all the weights. Basically when a person is having a convulsive seizure their muscles are jerking with all the strength they have. After that episode he knew something was not right and he started checking things out. He read the essay I wrote and research more. I still had to do a chit load of stuff since he was a marine and I was under his roof. But he looked at things in a different light. It took him more time then it did Mom and my brother but he did come arround.Most of the reason people do not want to accept epilepsy is because of the stigma associated with epilepsy. That stigma is over 2000 years. Remember it was Cesar that had the "falling sickness"You might want to google or bing "famoud people that had epilepsy" many people would learn a lot if they saw the names on the list . I hope this helps