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SomeTimes I just dont know what to do anymore

ButterFlyGirl86
  • By ButterFlyGirl86 · New reply 10:53 am
  • Journal · 4 replies
  • I have been thinking alot about why things happen and I know that things happen for a reason we just dont know why it happens at the time. But I would love to know why now. I am only 23 and happly married ...

Bad Storm on its way here

ButterFlyGirl86
  • By ButterFlyGirl86 · New reply yesterday at 2:31 pm
  • Journal · 19 replies
  • They are telling me that we are going to being 7 to 8ins of snow tonight and up to sun i just hope its not like it was like last year here, we had now power and water nothing for a week, it was bad. but ...

Busy times... As usual.

Adventure_Girl
  • By Adventure_Girl · New reply yesterday at 1:31 pm
  • Journal · 15 replies
  • UPDATES IN THE REPLIES :-) This morning my diatician came over to drop of a box of new formula (Peptamin 1.5) because my other formula (Isosource 1.5) is causing problems. I am having extremely slow gastric ...

I PRAY FOR MY SON

lm3471
  • By lm3471 · New reply February 3, 2010
  • Journal · 3 replies
  • MY SON JUST STARTED HAVING SEIZURES ON OCT 30TH AND I WAS JUST TERRIFIED , HE HAS HAD 2 MORE SINCE THEN , HE IS ONLY 12 YRS OLD , AND JUST STARTED THIS YEAR TRAVELING ALONE HOME FOR SCHOOL , NOW I HAVE ...

Well it is good to say.............

LizardmyOli
  • By LizardmyOli · New reply February 1, 2010
  • Journal · 8 replies
  • and yell! I survived this year!!!!! Wahoooooo, MRI was clean, my dent is still in the right frontal lobe, but nothing else, my sulci are shaping again (the only wrinkles anyone wants!) I went to Portland ...

Seizures caused by aspertame & MSG

Conor
  • By Conor · Posted January 31, 2010
  • Discussion in Living with seizures · 0 replies
  • I'm a dad of a 15-y-o boy who developed night seizures in Nov 08. These gradually became worse. Doctors, tests and lots of educated guesses... It was a real nightmare. The worst happened in April 09 ...

Start if a New Year

psjaquith
  • By psjaquith · Posted January 30, 2010
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Well, I have had an interesting easement into 2010. The week of Christmas, I was in the hospital for 4 days hooked to NG tube and stomach pump. I went in with severe pain, violent vomiting, and seizures ...

is anyone taking keppra.?

ButterFlyGirl86
  • By ButterFlyGirl86 · New reply January 24, 2010
  • Discussion in Living with seizures · 2 replies
  • i have been having seizures for over 9 years now but for 3 of them i have not had one that i know of. i could have them when i am asleep bc i can shake and wake myself up so and i never know when i have ...

First seizure... help

agperryman04
  • By agperryman04 · Posted January 20, 2010
  • Discussion in Living with seizures · 0 replies
  • I had a grand mal seizure on Friday, Jan. 15. I see a neurologist in a week... but... is it normal to feel kind of out of it for days after a seizure? I have been exhausted since the incident... I still ...

New Medication

aloha64
  • By aloha64 · New reply January 18, 2010
  • Discussion in Treatment · 7 replies
  • I was on siezure medication and still having seizures so my doctor added this new medication called Keppra. I have only had two doses and I feel wierd! Has anyone else used this med? Any comments?Thanks ...

Why does God hate me?

djmtard
  • By djmtard · New reply January 18, 2010
  • Journal · 59 replies
  • Since I was very young my life has been a series of bad accidents and illnesses. It started when I was 15. I was in the state finals for barrel racing and came off my horse and broke my back. Then when ...

Round and Round the Merry? Go Round

psjaquith
  • By psjaquith · Posted January 17, 2010
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • I spent the first part of Christmas week in the hospital with a tube shoved down my nose. Inflammation, with a little help from scar tissue, had my GI tract completely blocked. Caused projectile vomiting ...

No Diagnosis

A_Moms_Love
  • By A_Moms_Love · New reply January 12, 2010
  • Discussion in Living with seizures · 4 replies
  • Hi everyone. I am new to this post and have found some encouraging words from very wise, informed parents. Thank you to everyone for that. My daughter, Zia, is 17 months old and started having grand mal ...

New Diagnosis

amie72303
  • By amie72303 · Posted January 6, 2010
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Megan is now 19 months old. On November 23, 2009 we got the results on a SNP-array genetic test. It showed that Megan has a microdeletion in her 15q13.3 with a deletion in her CHRNA7. Since our last post ...

Very Far Behind

psjaquith
  • By psjaquith · Posted December 29, 2009
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Things have been hopping in my household, never a dull or quiet moment. We got our guardianship of our daughter, which we have to do annually...a pain to have to maintain guardianship at $5k a pop (and ...

surgery evual

carol_slone
  • By carol_slone · New reply December 22, 2009
  • Journal · 2 replies
  • I took my son to see his seizure specialist today..Last mon he had a atonic seizure and had to get 3 stiches in his eyebrow. Which they has to do as outpatient.. She thinks it would be best to send him ...

To eat or not to eat!

aloha64
  • By aloha64 · New reply December 18, 2009
  • Journal · 14 replies
  • I have decided to eat a month or so ago. I did ok for a while...meaning the pain was manageable, no vomitiong and I wasn't in the bathroom too much. BUT, this didn't last very long. Now the vomiting has ...

Dragging the hind End

LizardmyOli
  • By LizardmyOli · New reply December 17, 2009
  • Journal · 2 replies
  • The end of last week and this week were tough, I startred the high dose temador and right off the bat, got very ill and had to go to the ER and then the docs for 3 days of bage of water to hydrate up ...

Strange Times

LizardmyOli
  • By LizardmyOli · New reply December 15, 2009
  • Journal · 2 replies
  • On the 8th I started my high dose Temador regime, got up took the meds, went to work and BAMMM!! 2 hours later I felt like, well, I felt terrible, I started throwing up and there was nothing in me to ...

seizure---surgery or not?

watnow1
  • By watnow1 · New reply December 10, 2009
  • Discussion in Epilepsy · 3 replies
  • Please share what you know ...

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