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Topic: New to Epilepsy.com

Epilepsy is serious !

05/2017 | 8 Comments

Hi my partner had his first siezure last year. His are very violent; whole body shakes violently whilst foaming from the mouth being sick urinating...
Is marijuana a trigger for siezures

05/2017 | 1 Comments

I've smoked habitually for 15 years and now I've had a few seizures this year am now diagnosed with epilepsy now I take keppra twice a day I have not...
First seizure

05/2017 | 1 Comments

Last Friday I had my first seizure and ever since then I have been hesitant to go places. I had the seizure in his car when I was dropping stuff off...
EEG spikes on right side?

05/2017 | 0 Comments

Does anyone know what spikes on the right side of the brain on an eeg mean? I'm just trying to learn more about what's going on with me! I had a tonic...
Concerned parent

05/2017 | 3 Comments

My 3 yr old was diagnosed with epilepsy. It started with febrile seizures, which I knew nothing about and now this. I'm confused and lost because we...
New to seizures

05/2017 | 1 Comments

Hi. On the 24th April I had my first tonic colonic seizure. Whilst in hospital my bloods and ct scan all came back clear. I have since had an mri scan...
withdrawing from keppra or generic form

05/2017 | 1 Comments

Hello I am a newbie here. I started having seizures about 4 years ago and started taking k to max of 1500 a day. I decided to get a second opinion and...
Depakote and Melatonin

05/2017 | 0 Comments

My 12 year old son was just diagnosed with JME and put in depakote. When he took it this evening he became a bit more restless and is having trouble...
Morning after seizure pain

05/2017 | 0 Comments

Hi everyone. I'm newly diagnosed with general epilepsy. I have absence seizures during the day, but not sure if I'm having different ones during sleep...
Does this sound like a seizure?

05/2017 | 0 Comments

It was early in the morning and I'd been severely restricting my food(At this point I'd had an eating disorder for 2.5 years from which I am...
Seizure or something else?

05/2017 | 1 Comments

I had my first seizure (tonic clonic) about a week ago and since then have seen a neurologist. Last night I started to feel strange and anxious and my...
Absence seizures

05/2017 | 2 Comments

Hello I am new to this forum so apologies if someone as started this topic. I am 34 mum to one & I have been having what I think are absence seizures...
Help please?

05/2017 | 1 Comments

I haven't been diagnosed with epilepsy or a seizure disorder but I have had some form episode every once in a while, for several years now. I'm not...
Is it really JAE?

05/2017 | 5 Comments

So my son has told me that during his "zoning out spells," he isn't really unconscious. He says he can kind of hear people talking to him, but he's...
Brain tumor in Hippocampus

04/2017 | 1 Comments

Hello everyone. I'm new here and not sure which category to post my issue within. My 32 year old son was diagnosed in oct. 2016 with a brain tumor in...
New to epilepsy.com

04/2017 | 2 Comments

Hello, I've recently been diagnosed after having 2 seizures. The first was during my sleep and the second, which was 2 weeks ago was whilst I was...

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