Community Forum Archive
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.
10/2019 | 1 Comments
I know what triggers my seizures, but that list has grown the older I get (in my 40's now). I discovered recently that when I have too much sugar...
10/2019 | 1 Comments
I found it hard to even get up this morning when I finally managed I fell up against the wall. I got to the bathroom but I did end up losing control...
10/2019 | 3 Comments
I’m a 29 year old male , I had my first convulsion when I was 15 taken to the hospital they said I had epilepsy. I take depakote 500mg at night to...
10/2019 | 4 Comments
I just saw my neurologist for the first time. He told me that I was unconscious when the EMTs came and when I came to I was fighting them because I...
10/2019 | 1 Comments
I'm relatively new to epilepsy as it only began after severe head trauma 3 years ago. I've been lucky in that all my seizures have been at home in the...
10/2019 | 2 Comments
I need your help. My wife is recently 30 years old and 3 years ago she had her first seizure (I thought it was simply fainting). From that time she...
10/2019 | 1 Comments
When I have a seizure coming on I notice my thinking is slow, vision is hazzy/ aura, my left arm and leg sometimes becomes very weak and at times...
10/2019 | 2 Comments
I got a medic alert tattoo and it is wonderful. The jewelry is ugly and the chains kept breaking so I solved the whole problem and it's pretty. The...
10/2019 | 2 Comments
I just had an appointment at the eye doctor last week and after the assistants had me do some testing where I move my eyes to follow an object, I felt...
10/2019 | 5 Comments
I am a 30 year old mother of a 3 year old and 1 year old. About a month ago I had a grand mal seizure that scared my children and husband to death. I...
10/2019 | 2 Comments
Hi, I have a 21 year old that has a variety of special needs. These include autism, anxiety, LD, tourette's syndrome, OCD, and now seizures. Prior to...
10/2019 | 0 Comments
Ive had seizures in my sleep since i was in 3rd or 4rd grade. I am now 37yrs old, been on Tegretol XR since then. The medication controls my seizures...
09/2019 | 2 Comments
My daughter is 25. She started having seizures at 1 yo. She is taking zonegran which has worked since she was 15 with only one breakthrough seizure at...
09/2019 | 3 Comments
Trying to post here but it keeps saying "Sorry invalid content". Just seeing if the fault is in the message...
09/2019 | 2 Comments
I need help. I've been more of a public setting now that I have a job at a Marijuana Dispensary (of all places) Well I've been having SPS/auras and I...
09/2019 | 2 Comments
Hello everyone. I have simple partial seizures. I would like to know if a chronic painless tooth abscess can make my seizures more frequent and more...
09/2019 | 9 Comments
Hi all, Im a 26 year old male that has had Epilepsy since February 2016. I had my first seizure in work while a manager of burger king so as you can...
09/2019 | 3 Comments
Epilepsy f*cks my life, I have had it since I was a little kid ~4 years (I'm 28 today). My life have sucked whole life, my epilepsy have always been a...
09/2019 | 3 Comments
Hi. My name is Juliana. I am 24 and have had epilepsy since I was 6. I have epilepsy in the form of twitches and zoning out during the day and once a...