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After my worst seizure we had to take out this air fresher and i had to change my...

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Reply: can this type of abuse cause epilepsy/szs?

hi phoenix, there is also something called pseudoseizures where your depression...

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I always get my age wrong when the EMTs ask me my age after a seizure. my husband has to...

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I had my first seizure at age 27. i am now 28. i am a female, so every doctor i saw...

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I had my first seizure at age 27. i am now 28. i am a female, so every doctor i saw assumed i was pregnant because i was newly married. i knew i wasnt. i was not placed on medication until my second seizure. i was placed on keppra 500 mg twice a day. i started having periods of time that would last up to 2 weeks where i couldnt remember things, it was like i was drunk, but i wasnt. i was sent to an endocrine dr because i was told it wasnt neurological, it was a low blood sugar thing. i went to this dr who ran all these tests and while i did suffer from low blood sugar i was still having seizures, even with my sugars under control. so he sent me back to the neurologist. every 2 weeks i would go into this "drunk-like" state and then have a grand mal (tonic-clonic) seizure and then i would be my normal self for a couple of weeks and the cycle repeats. my neurologist put me on lamicatal xr starting at 50mg and moving up to 200mg. once i got to 200mg i was to stop the keppra which was now at 1000mg twice a day. (this is now a year later and no answers) two days into 200mg of lamictal and no keppra i had the worst seizure ever. my dr believes it was a complex partial that went into a grand mal. i went back on keppra. my neurologist did the 6th EEG and it actually came up abnormal indicating epilepsy. (all other eegs came back normal, even a 48 hr medication withdrawal one) so i was sent to an epilepsy specialist. he wants to put me into a seizure to see where in the brain it comes from and which medication will then be the best. also i need to see a neuropsychiatrist for my anxiety disorder that is seizure induced. i get bad anxiety after a seizure that will last for a week where i am so afraid to be left alone. and i need to see a neuropsychologist who will do memory games and tests because i have severe short term memory loss. my license was not taken away legally but my doctor said i cant drive. i just wanted to reply because i had never read about another 27 year old who just developed seizures out of no where. my poor husband is so stressed and scared to leave me alone. i cant work right now. my last seizure was so bad that i actually think it messed up my husband mentally. as i see these other dr.'s and get more testing done i will update.

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