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Fri, 06/08/2018 - 20:59Topic: New to Epilepsy.com
Hi I'm new here, I'm 43 and I started having epileptic seizures about 9 months ago, I've had 5 since, my questions are I don't understand the lingo I guess, what is stuff like tonic clonic, and focal and other stuff?
There’s a glossary on this
Submitted by Amy Jo on Sat, 2018-06-09 - 00:34
There’s a glossary on this site - https://www.epilepsy.com/living-epilepsy/toolbox/glossarybut under the Learn section is a starting place to help one put terms into a framework to understand the terms.