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my boyfriend has seizures

ladyliz83
  • By ladyliz83 · Posted October 10, 2009
  • In Family and friends · 0 replies
  • my name is liz and im 26 yrs old. and i live with my boyrfriend, who is my first love.. and means everything to me.. around september rey broke out in hives, and he kept going back to the er. and they ...

Im dong much better as of today on keppra

vickiec51
  • By vickiec51 · Posted September 30, 2009
  • In Treatment · 3 replies
  • Im still getting off desipramine an antidepressant i was put on after a hysterectomy because I was allergic to PREMARIN an estrogen. I didnt know I was allergic to premarin until a different dr did a ...

No Diagnosis

A_Moms_Love
  • By A_Moms_Love · Posted September 5, 2009
  • In Living with seizures · 0 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 ...

prescription meds

pertzo
  • By pertzo · Posted August 8, 2009
  • In Epilepsy · 0 replies
  • anybody with any ideas of how to get good insurance for a child who will soon be off her parents insurance? she takes both zonegran and keppra which are both very expensive and her doctor has ordered ...

Epilepsy Post Surgery

dorisellen
  • By dorisellen · Posted July 25, 2009
  • In Epilepsy · 1 reply
  • Hi, I am trying to communicate with others who have also had the surgery for epilepsy. I had left temporal surgery almost 12 years ago. My experience since then has be very different than others I read ...

Bone mass density scans

Info
  • By Info · Posted April 8, 2009
  • In Epilepsy · 2 replies
  • are recommended for people who've taken phenobarbital and Dilantin for prolonged periods. Has anyone had one? I 'd like to know what your doctors said were the criteria he used to determine that it should ...

Strikes in the brain

Inez
  • By Inez · Posted April 5, 2009
  • In Other seizure disorders · 1 reply
  • My son is having many different types of seizures some they have not giving me a name for. He started having grand mal seizures when he was 2o years old then other seizures have started. Now he is having ...

Strikes in the brain

Inez
  • By Inez · Posted April 5, 2009
  • In Other seizure disorders · 0 replies
  • My son is having many different types of seizures some they have not giving me a name for. He started having grand mal seizures when he was 2o years old then other seizures have started. Now he is having ...

My 7 year old had first grand mal lasting 25 min

dhop
  • By dhop · Posted March 26, 2009
  • In Raising a child with a seizure disorder · 5 replies
  • My father had a seizure disorder from 2 head injurys as a child. He had 2 cysts on the brain. My daughter had her 1st seizure last week. A grand mal lasting 25min. She did not come out of it on her own ...

When can I drive???

J-Wall17
  • By J-Wall17 · Posted March 10, 2009
  • In Living with seizures · 3 replies
  • The doctor says I only have hope for a license when I can get on the right medication, but it's been a year and we're still looking, still changing meds. This next ones going to be a doozy, 10 pills a ...

Hi

psjaquith
  • By psjaquith · Posted January 2, 2009
  • In Epilepsy · 0 replies
  • Wow, all the topics listed apply here. I hunted and did not find a seizure group earlier this week so thank you Inspire for giving me direct link. My daughter has metabolic related intractible seizure ...

catamenial seizures in teen girls and women pls help!

crose
  • By crose · Posted December 14, 2008
  • In Raising a child with a seizure disorder · 1 reply
  • my teen is using medical cannabis for seizures its is helping but we still have problems with estrogen rises due to her period and because she has lennox-gastaut syndrome most of the pharmaceuticals eventually ...

does anyone use medical cannabis for treatment of seizures?

crose
  • By crose · Posted December 14, 2008
  • In Epilepsy · 0 replies
  • my teen is using medical cannabis for seizures its is helping but we still have problems with estrogen rises due to her period and because she has lennox-gastaut syndrome most of the pharmaceuticals eventually ...

Seizure Medications

jdawgrules2
  • By jdawgrules2 · Posted December 13, 2008
  • In Treatment · 3 replies
  • Has anyone taking tegretol found a better medicine with less side effects ...

New to the group

lovies10323
  • By lovies10323 · Posted December 11, 2008
  • In Living with seizures · 8 replies
  • Hello, nice to be here. I've had Epilepsy for 36 years. I have gone through yrs with no seizures until I started into the change of life. I started having them daily and received a VNS implant in June ...

Depakote in toddlers

gracie_momma
  • By gracie_momma · Posted November 26, 2008
  • In Raising a child with a seizure disorder · 8 replies
  • Hello, my name is Jennifer. My daughter Gracie will be 3 on the 13th of Dec. She has had seizure since she was 10 weeks old. She has been on meds everywhere from Phenobarb to keppra and so on. Currently ...

New epilepsy DX for my son - anyone in the same boat?

mariav
  • By mariav · Posted November 20, 2008
  • In Raising a child with a seizure disorder · 5 replies
  • Hi everyone, I am new to this group and wanted to introduce myself and see if there were others out there raising young kids with E. Last week, my 18-month-old son was diagnosed with epilepsy after having ...

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