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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.

I need a job Please!!!

05/2005 | 2 Comments

Hello my name is Louis J. De Angelis Jr. I developed Eilepsy at the age of 52. I was so sick for about 6 months because no one new what was going on...
Just need to talk/rant

05/2005 | 196 Comments

Hello. I've been jerking and seizing most of the day and I just need to talk. I tried to write in my journal but it felt like such emptiness writing...
(whoops)

05/2005 | 11 Comments

I'm sorry. I posted a problem I've been having but found out from my neuro the answer so I'm removing my post.Basically I wake up often with sobbing...
Re VNS not working for some & what to do

05/2005 | 7 Comments

You may notice I posted this under two folders because I feel strongly we need to let report when things are not working for some. SO forgive me for...
Pseudo Tumor Cerebri?

05/2005 | 13 Comments

Along with my epilepsy I have had severe headaches. Some so bad where I started seeing everything in black and white, sometimes going temporarily...
Opinions anyone?

05/2005 | 39 Comments

Hi folks. I just found this forum from epilepsy.com and thought I would get a few opinions. I experience the aura "deja vu" symptoms that many folks...
I am very sorry.........

05/2005 | 8 Comments

Hi to all who reads this, I am new to this site and may not understand exactly what is going on concerning the religion thing, but I do have an...
Help with employment for epileptics

04/2005 | 3 Comments

Has anyone had a problem with employment? I know I have had some. Was even fired after having a seizure at work.I just wanted to let everyone know...
SSDI and SSI

04/2005 | 1 Comments

The problem you are going to have is that SSI (which is what you can get when you do not have enough credits to get SSDI) Your husbands income is...
just been diagnosed

04/2005 | 6 Comments

hi alli've just been diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy, so i'm new to this whole.. experience.i'm 22 now, getting my bachelors in kuala lumpur...
???"s re disability

04/2005 | 5 Comments

I am in a kinda of bind and hoping for any suggestions.here is a bit of back ground. I have epilepsy have for 36 years,sine age 8. All thru High...
Should I give up yet?

04/2005 | 8 Comments

I have had epilepsy for 22 years and it is now prgressing to get worse over the years. I am on Felbatol, Zonegran and have the VNS implanted. I am...
Grand Mal (tonic-clonic) seizure

04/2005 | 17 Comments

My 1 st Grand Mal (tonic-clonic) seizure March 2001 No previous seizures or convulsions that I was aware of although may have been having some aura...
what would you do?

04/2005 | 6 Comments

Hi, I have TLE, and I've been seizure-free for over a year (up until last night, I had a nocturnal complex partial). We are all seriously sleep...
myoclonic/ tonic-clonic

04/2005 | 11 Comments

hopefully someone can help me get some clarity on this.yesterday i had my thrid seizure ever, the first in five years, and would like to ask a...
Related Symptoms...

04/2005 | 13 Comments

I am 31 and have been recently diagnosed with the same, i also feel fine and only have these in my sleep. My tests were also fine, however the doctors...
My job offer was taken back

04/2005 | 2 Comments

I was offered a job and after passing my physicals and recieving my dot card I was told I didn't qualify because I fainted over two years ago. I also...

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