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Topic: Living With Epilepsy - Adults

A place to share questions, concerns, and challenges that adults with epilepsy may face in understanding, managing and living with seizures.

CO-HOUSING FOR YOUNG ADULTS WITH EPILEPSY

03/2019 | 3 Comments

Looking for friends who share concern about how to transition our still seizing kids into independence. Wondering about some kind of shared housing...
Was this epilepsy

03/2019 | 2 Comments

I got diagnosed with epilepsy yesterday after having my first 2 seizures at the age of 20 under stressful situations, something i have had going for a...
Did I dream this?

03/2019 | 1 Comments

The days leading up to this my feet were tingling and numb and my hands would periodically do the same. I also felt lethargic for both days which I...
Coping with a spouse with epilepsy

03/2019 | 3 Comments

My wife started having seizures about 4 years ago. Then August 2017 after a big weekend of drinking was hospitalized for 10 days. She had a seizure...
Seriously realistic dreams

03/2019 | 2 Comments

Hey does anyone else ever have some seriously creepy realistic dreams? Just had one after taking my meds in the morning. And when I say realistic, I...
I think I had a seizure?

03/2019 | 0 Comments

I started having small jerks in my body when I was 16 I use to play video games for an extensive amount of time each day I started getting tremors in...
FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD 1 SEIZURE

03/2019 | 4 Comments

Hey Guys! My name is Ella and I had my very first seizure when I was 16. Such as horrible time for that time happen because I just got my license and...
Meningioma

03/2019 | 1 Comments

My boyfriend was diagnosed with a benign meningioma in his frontal lobe 2 years ago March 2017. He had the tumor removed. He had an MRI taken May 2018...
Tegretol and Artificial Sweeteners

03/2019 | 0 Comments

Hi all, I've been on Tegretol at varying doses for the last 20 years for grand mal seizures. I was generally controlled for the last 3 years until a...
Office and seizures

03/2019 | 2 Comments

I'm new, I've had epylepsy for about 10 years now. I have temporal lobe epilepsy with partial seizures. I've worked in an office processing data for 4...
Seizures - a new development

03/2019 | 0 Comments

Last October (October 1st, in fact) I experienced my first ever seizure. While I’ve been getting pseudostroke migraines since I was five years old...
Partial Complex So many questions

02/2019 | 3 Comments

Hi, Im hoping to share and maybe get some feedback. As im sure many of you can relate, I don’t have anyone that really understands what I go through...
Seizure free mostly for 3 months

02/2019 | 1 Comments

I have tonic clionic seizures and went 1 year seizure free got my license. But since beginning of 2018 I've been getting seizures every 3 months, and...

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