In some cases seizures are hereditary.  But not in all cases.  I have
epilepsy, but that doesn't mean that I wish that I wasn't born.  Our
point is no need to be negative to someone who is asking a question of
our group.

Take care,
Julie

  Did anyone ever tell you why your family has that predisposition (if

that's what caused it?).

You're the **second person since Sept. 1997 who has posted here about a
familial
relationship.   The other was Darla in Wash. State who had an Aunt and
either her Mother or another sister who had same type of seizures.
 (I don't remember the **type she had, of 5 or 6 types currently
referred to -- they were childhood onset, not late onset like mine--
she was still using medis to control them.)
  She posted here in late 1997 after I mentioned I had never met
anyone who had a family history of any type of seizures.

  I don't have statistics assembled from here, between then and now,
but over the past 8.5 years you *2 are the >only 2< where that has
occurred-- yet there have been
probably 30 new posters per month? x12 = 360 x 8+ years =2880 posters,
here, who *don't have that correlation.

Dave is the Statistician when he's around, so he'll butt in if these
statistics don't look reasonable, based on assumptions above and below,
try this -->

 I realize that's difficult to set as statistically significant, but
assume
this used to be one of the more active groups, so representative?  --
That's
still 8 years x12 months = 96 times the no. of new posters average per
month
during that period.  Call it 2/2700 (above para.2880) with
**hereditary-based
seizures.  That is 0.077 of One Percent (8/100ths of *1* percent).
  Your perception, we were suggesting, of the new poster, based on the

limited information they gave you, doesn't support, statistically, your

assumptions on their behalf for **them.
 Even given that your family appears to have a large number of people
with similar? or the same? seizures (you didn't indicate if the reason
was ever **explained to you for all the familial cases).  As I listed
earlier, you and Darla are the only 2 where **more than one person** in
the same family had any types of seizures -- the same type or not.

   Those of us who replied were trying to put the Support back into
alt.support, and thought the comments weren't statistically accurate,
based on the postings here over that period, and people who had read
and posted about their particular seizure types and whether there was
any relationship between *their onset dates (childhood, teen or
adulthood),  and whether they mentioned any familial relationship that
existed in their cases.   Except for the *one I mentioned above, and
now you,  that made *2.

  I felt then (and still believe), that wasn't a statistically
reliable figure to base the reply to the *new* poster, with  the
limited information she posted here and provided to you.
 Unless they've discussed that with their Doctors and their particular
case (especially where it was the Male? who had later onset seizures),
I didn't feel that was a place where we had reliable enough information
to do an online diagnosis for them, other than suggest what they could
ask or review that with the Doctor involved in their treatment...
G./.