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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.

Meet Drainbamage

08/2004 | 11 Comments

Hello boys and girls. I am Drainbamage. I am 30 years old and still live with my parents. I am on Full Disability and bring in those HUGE sums of...
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy?

07/2004 | 6 Comments

Hi, I'm new in this community and I'd be happy if anyone could help me determine what kind of epilepsy I've got. My doctor didn't tell, but on the...
support groups

07/2004 | 1 Comments

I'm wondering if support groups actually help. I can feel great for a month or two but then I have a few bad seizures and am sick for a week. This is...
I would like to share this with you all.

07/2004 | 24 Comments

I am 34 myself and am very close to a 48 year old woman at my place of work.A year or so ago she had what was beleived to be a stroke at first but now...
no independence

07/2004 | 3 Comments

hi everybody, i am quite new here and just thought some of you may be able to help me a bit. the thing is i have epilepsy since i was a baby but it...
Feelings after having had a seizure.

07/2004 | 2 Comments

The other night I had a number of bad seizures. Now for the past 2 days I haven't been myself. It is very hard to describe but nothing looks or feels...
simple partial seizures

07/2004 | 11 Comments

I have just realized that the strange feelings I get every so often are simple partial seizures, they are not anxietyattacks and they are not some...
Faces bringing on a seizure

06/2004 | 2 Comments

I was wondering if anyone out there has this problem. I go to a gym after work and just the other day I seen someone I haven't seen in a long time...
Also new to epilepsy

06/2004 | 2 Comments

Hi!How is everyone?Just yesterday I had the second seizure of my life, the last one happening seven or eight years ago (maybe even longer, I can't...
New here-Does exercise affect seizures?

05/2004 | 18 Comments

Hi. I'm new here, my father told me about this site and I decided to check it out.I'm a 24 year old woman with general epilepsy. It's well controlled...
Abscence

05/2004 | 14 Comments

One of the types of seizures that I experience are abscence seizures and lately they have been increasing. I have also recently entered peri-menopause...
Causes

04/2004 | 1 Comments

G'day I'm new to this area and am wondering if anyone can tell me if a Q fever injection could cause a seizure. I have already had one seizure and am...
New to Seizures

04/2004 | 9 Comments

Hi, I am 52 years old and just had my first two seizures on the same day, out of the blue. I was wondering if this has happened to anyone else in my...
Sleep thru a seizure?

04/2004 | 1 Comments

Hi,Oh, i'm already doing this backwards, i replied without introducing myself, and i replied to a post about weed of all things....Ok, I'm a 24 year...
migranes and seizures

04/2004 | 5 Comments

a couple of weeks ago i went out and had a few drinks with my friends. i usually dont have more then four drinks but it was my birthday so i had about...
Does Epilepsy ever totally go away?

04/2004 | 23 Comments

I've read that it does. But I have my own theory on it. I believe that Epilepsy is like a Volcano – it can lie dormant for a very long time and then...

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