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Topic: Family & Friends

A place for those who care for and about people with epilepsy - caring for yourselves as well as those around you.

hey i have....

09/2010 | 0 Comments

HEY PEOPLE I HAVE ABSENCE SEZIURES... ABSENCE SEIZURE IS WHERE A PERSON WOULD STARE OFF INTO SPACE AND CANT BE SNAPPED OUT OF IT FROM AS LITTLE AS 10...
Will My Children Get it?

09/2010 | 1 Comments

My children (3) are always concerned whether they will..."CATCH IT".., my seizure disorder. I noticed the other day my daughter 15 year-old spacing...
Toddler with Fainting Like Seizures

08/2010 | 0 Comments

Hi, Our son had his first seizure 1 week before his 2nd birthday. Well we think it was a seizure. It was around lunch time and he had stated he was...
My boyfriend suffers with epilepsy

06/2010 | 5 Comments

My boyfriend got epilepsy in 2005. His seizures are very strange, he becomes very violent and shouts things out. He can actually stand up and walk...
Aggression

05/2010 | 0 Comments

Curious...Has there been studies linking aggression and epilepsy? Does childhood onset of epilepsy usually cause aggression in a child or teenager...
Adult epilepsy and illogical thought??

05/2010 | 3 Comments

Not sure how to describe this in a forum post, but I'm going to try in hopes of finding some answers. My husband has had epilepsy since childhood, he...
Leaving for college

04/2010 | 9 Comments

I am feeling very overwhelmed right now. My daughter has generalized seizures, both absence and tonic clonic. She was taken by ambulance to the...
Abdominal Pain

04/2010 | 0 Comments

I have complex partial seizures and have all my life. My niece (18) recently developed abdominal pains so severe she is taken to the ER. They can't...
How to throw an epilepsy awareness party?

04/2010 | 0 Comments

Hi all, My daughter and I would like to throw an epilepsy awareness party for her son. Any ideas on where we can order pamphlets, articles on epilepsy...
My boyfriend has epilepsy...OUR STORY

03/2010 | 14 Comments

The Story of Angelina & James....and epilepsy Hi, my name is Angelina. I am 23 years old. I have a 4 yr old son Benjamin. I met a guy named James (21...
My Father has a severe back pain :-(

02/2010 | 3 Comments

Hello, I am 18 years old and my father who is 47 years old had had an alcohol-withdrawl seizure on February 4, 2010. This is the first time (and the...
Epilepsy & PMT

01/2010 | 0 Comments

I was recently diagnosed PMT, but i also suffer from Epilepsy. I went to my doctor recently & he perscribed me a drug for my PMT called, Citolopram...

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