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Topic: Living With Epilepsy - Youth

Memory loss affecting studies

10/2016 | 0 Comments

My 18 yr old daughter is having what we believe to be epilepsy-related memory problems, being unable to recall the information she has revised for her...
HELP

09/2016 | 1 Comments

Is it possible to be epileptic even if all the tests don't show it (e.g EEG)? My sister who is 12 years old fainted 3 times over the course of 3 years...
Senior Thesis Project

09/2016 | 0 Comments

Hello, my name is Joanna, and I am an industrial design student working on my senior thesis. My focus for this project is to design a product for...
Senior Thesis Project

09/2016 | 0 Comments

Hello, my name is Joanna, and I am an industrial design student working on my senior thesis. My focus for this project is to design a product for...
A friend who understands

09/2016 | 0 Comments

Hi, My daughter is 8 years old and had seizures for the last 2 1/2 years. She has had a mixture of tonic clonic and grand mal seizures over this time...
Questions about PME

08/2016 | 0 Comments

Hi, my name is Catharine, and I'm a 16 year old living with epilepsy. I'm currently writing a novel about a teenage girl who is suffering from...
My story on my epilepsy

08/2016 | 1 Comments

It's been 2 almost 3 years since I was diagnosed with Coxsackie virus and meningitis and I will tell yourself it was the hardest thing that could ever...
Can I cook at work?

08/2016 | 1 Comments

I'm 16 years old and I like to cook. I have epilepsy also. My question is can I cook at work? My mom doesn't want me to cook because she's worried...
Bed Wetting

08/2016 | 0 Comments

Before I started having myoclonic seizures, I wet the bed. Did anyone else experience bed wetting prior to seizures beginning?
SCN1A mutation in babies

07/2016 | 0 Comments

Looking to connect to other parents who's child has been diagnosed with this gene mutation. We are new to the now newly diagnosed epilepsy life
VNS and LGS

07/2016 | 1 Comments

My 4yo has been having seizures for the last 2 years. We started with a Grand Mal and a week and half later she had another one. She has now had...
New to epilepsy

07/2016 | 0 Comments

I've only had 3 seizures my whole life, now being 21 with a fall time job it's hard and weird suddenly finding out you have epilepsy. I've battled...
Can someone give me some helping advice?

07/2016 | 1 Comments

I had 3 seizure my entire life, I am 21 years old, the first 2 ones were grand mal I made them when I was 11 and 12 years old, I didn't have a big...
Tori's Story

07/2016 | 0 Comments

In October 2013 I had my first grand mal seizure. The day leading up to the traumatic night was completely normal; I went to school, attended...
My daughter sleeps so much.

06/2016 | 0 Comments

Hi everyone. My 13 year-old daughter has been diagnosed with deep temporal lobe epilepsy (simple partials) for 3 years now, though they suspect she's...
Advice?

05/2016 | 1 Comments

Hi, so two years ago I was diagnosed with tonic-clonic epilepsy, but have only had 2 full blown seizures in my lifetime. Before my diagnosis I had...
Losing Control- Please Help!

05/2016 | 2 Comments

Hi everyone! So, I'm currently taking lamotrigine (50 mg 2x a day), Depakote (750 mg a day), and Keppra (1500 mg a day) for JME. I've been...
Past experiences holding me back.

05/2016 | 1 Comments

My adopted uncle had his first grand maul seizure when he was 5. I was born 2 yrs later and I grew up knowing about epilepsy. Since i can remember it...

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