I think most of the links I gave you earlier are still *o.k., although
some of the Language used might be a *little different in England vs. North
America.  You'd like be able to understand all the information on the sites
as they are.
  There *was a UK people support epilepsy group at end of 1990s
(uk.people.support.epilepsy) that I used to read as well as this
International Group, but the UK one got ruptured (at the time) along with
*All the uk.people.support.*  sites by a guy who had a Robot Harvester
picking up addresses to Resell.   I don't know if Marland has left there or
not, I never resubscribed after about 1998 or 9, since the extra work to
discard the chaff he attracted wasn't worth the time to try post on that
group.  I had met a couple of fellows who I had thought were coming to This
Group, but I haven't seen them here since I bought this new computer, and
left their addresses on the old one.

  **THIS Group is an International one, and if you don't get an answer to
any questions you have from Europe or UK when you post them, you'll often
get some help from North or South America or New Zealand and Australia over
the next *2 days.   I think it's *better because of the mix of participants.
Maybe I'm just biased.
   Re below waiting time.   Canada is starting to get *somewhat longer too,
although not *that long yet.   It makes you wonder, though, what it'll be
like in 3-4 years when us 'Baby Boomers'  all start to Retire and put a Full
Load on the Systems, in our respective Countries,  doesn't it ??  :-<    G./

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  I guess we'll have to go look at the efa.org site unless Dr. Bob is still
around.  I had been told at first (1993) that my szrs. were Tonic Clonic,
then 6 months later that they were Complex Partial (Temporal Lobe), likely
after they had run the EEGs and MRIs -- Then somewhere around there  I got
the 1st computer.   One of the groups (this one or the uk one I read at that
time),  I had thought someone posted about 'Tonic Clonic' being Grand Mal
equivalent.

   Anyway, that's why I posted that to the new person who was having
trouble finding information on T.Clonic seizures on network searches...   If
it's still a valid term your Doctor is using,  maybe they'll still be
reading here,  since I suggested they look at either the US Ep. Foundation
Glossary site http://efa.org   *or to try Grand Mal and see if the symptoms
looked like their's.
   It would be handy to know (for me) which is which and which is obsolete
(if any), so we can direct new people to correct sites...   For some of
these I've gone to your First Aid for seizures site, just to compare
symptoms described there vs. what they described on the Group had happened.
*********
   I had also done an older post about my Frisium pills ( = Clobazam)
being replaced by a Generic in Canada by my Insurer.    Except for a couple
of unrelated posts that didn't involve someone using Frisium,  wrt.  whether
Generics were reliable,  I only remembered that Dr. Bob (2001-3) had said he
always wrote 'no substitutions'  when he did prescriptions.   I'll know in
'100' days if the Pharmacy got my Insurer to 'back off' and cover the (80%)
costs of my patented pill,  instead of the Generic.   Since the reduced
amount they paid last refill doubled my costs to 40% ($36.) instead of 20% I
usually pay to my Insurer of the Full Prescription cost,  I *might try the
Generic in Sept. if my Grandchild is born by then...
   I really **don't like my Insurance Company telling me how my Medical
Treatment should be handled  -- I Emailed my Employer (I'm retired from) to
tell them what their Insurance Provider is doing, in case others haven't
told them about the reply they sent Direct to my Pharmacy about 'which
pills' they'd cover and which they wouldn't.  Since I wasn't aware they had
become licenced to practice Medicine in Ontario,  I didn't think they should
be providing Medical consultations to my Pharmacist about which pills would
work.
   That was pre-occupying me when I did the earlier post, but thought I had
still given correct information.    If it's not (correct),  I'd still like
to know so I can update my own understanding of this stuff.  //      G./

  I looked down http://efa.org  and did a search on Tonic Clonic, it went
into Google (that might be a function of my Cable Internet link),  and
pulled in about 30+ articles, some that link them both like you posted,
some that are shorter articles (not dated?) but that still used just the TC
label but not the other ones we usually use 'around here'.
   First one, if it fits, is at http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org site,  if
it doesn't fit whole line here -->
http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/answerplace/Medical/seizures/types/genConvulsi
ve/seizuretonic.cfm
   *Just fit on the one line with text size I use.   G./

I didn't think the terms 'Grand Mal' and 'Petit Mal' were fashionable any
more. I call mine major fits and complex partial ones but I suppose that
if the smaller ones are partial then the name for the full ones should
just be 'complex'.

Chris L.

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