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We invite you to share your personal #DareTo Go the Distance story. Use this forum to talk about how you are managing your seizures, finding your best possible health care, and improving your quality of life.
In year 2004, I started to have convulsive seizures at my freshman years in the university. After my second convulsive seizures within 5 days after the first one, I had done the EEG test, and then...
Hi, I'm Stella and I've been diagnosed with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy since 2017. I've had five seizure attacks and most of them were because of keppra that i used to take. My...
Hello my name is Hayleigh, I am 15 years old and has had epilepsy since birth. I am 6 months siezure free! I really want to get to 1 year but I feel like it's never going to happen. I will...
Hi from Russia. I'm 31 yo, had my first seizure 9 years ago in 2010 probably after stress (had two final university exams that day). And after that everything was fine till today. Recently I...
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I'm reaching out because I feel I have no support. To make a long story short... I'm 36 and after having a couple of seizures growing up (which resulted in testing and...
HI I am on Lamictal, was 50 morn and 50 night. After a seizure, my neuro changed it to 75 morn and 75 night. Now after being dizzy, it is back to 50 morn and 75 night. Has anyone had anything...
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I am Raghav Dubey from India. I am 12 years old and a student in seventh grade. Since last year October, I have epilepsy seizures at least once in a month. The few things that my...
As a 21 year old pregnant epileptic, there's a lot of things you already worry about going into this crazy thing called adulthood. As a mother with general idiopathic epilepsy, this is not...
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I am not diagnosed with epilepsy as at the age of 51 I only had a first seizure 2 weeks ago and taken to hospital. I’m hoping just a one off as after having just one I cannot imagine how...
Hello. I woke up at 4am to feed my 3 month old, she finishes, put her back to bed and then I went to lay back down. I started to fall asleep, but like normal I have a hard time falling back asleep...
My epilepsy awareness technically started yesterday. When my neurologist, who was treating me for Non-specific Narcolepsy Type 2 for the past 6 months, finally viewed one of my home videos of what...
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I find a new psychiatrist to see if there is anything else to try. She puts me on clonidine(ok) and sertraline (ok,for the Mild Depressive Disorder she identifies). I...
My daughter just turned 14 and had her 1st seizure last month . The MRI shows she has cortical dyspasia which they have told us is a abnormally from utero .and they are suprised this is the first...
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I'm having a down day. They don't happen often, but it seems I'm being tested in a big way. Before I get too far, please know that I am a positive person heart and I...
My daughter and I have been working on a book about her twenty-plus-year journey with epilepsy. It has stories about her life and "mama" advice from me. We need some input at this point...
Hello recently for the past week I have started to have migraines and dizziness 24/7 and can barely get out of bed.
I have always mostly suffered from Focal Seizures and I only have to do a...
Hi all! My name is Paige and I have JME. I was diagnosed in 2012 at 14 years old. I’m now 20 and taking 300mg of lamortagine (generic lamictal) once daily. I remember what it was like for me, a...
Hi I'm new here. I was first diagnosed with epilepsy in 2003 when I was 27. I have no history of seizures it just came out of the blue. At first I was having over 20 seizures of all types a...
My name is Shaka, a 21 year old. I had my first seizure when I was 19 years old and was fast sleep when it happened. So there I was feeling tired, so I went to bed...that's all that is ever...
I had a seizure at work on 2.7.19. I am a 29 yr old female, with no history of seizure... I was sitting at my desk doing a loan application for my customer, when next thing I know I'm laying...
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