Hello. I have grand mal siezures, about once every 6-8 months, but I've gone
1 1/2 years between siezures or 3 months apart. This began when I was in my
early 30s. I take dilantin. Three months ago I began to get siezures that
did not go all the way, just the aura part (couldn't ...

BlankBy popular medical definition, a person who has more than two seizures,
brought about by an abnormal electrical discharge of brain cells, has
epilepsy.  My wife, who has seizures, however, is not an epileptic.  After
reading and re-reading the following, I came to the ...

I have heard that JME is an inherited disorder. A friend of mine have JME,
but no other relatives have it.
Does all people with JME have a defect in chromosom location 15q14 ?
Some one who knows if it is posible to use gene tests to verify if a person

Good Afternoon All,
We just came from the Pediatric Neurologist and he informed us my 5 year old
daughter has Primary Generalized Seizures (Absence Seizures).
Now a couple questions for the group:

Good Morning All,
The Neuro has my 5 year old daughter on the following ramp up schedule for
Tamictal to treat her Absence Seizures:
Week 1 - 5mg a day

"The BBC's Kevin Bouquet reports"
A man emerged from a life of mental disability after doctors took him
off drugs supposed to control epilepsy. They had diagnosed 31-year-
old Nick Pierce as epileptic when he was 14 months old.  He was put

I am under Trileptal for 9 months now and I discovered by accident how
to stop my crisis. I have SPSE sensitive partial simple epilepsy.
I was wondering if somebody had a similar expirience and what he/she did?
Regards

I have a 4 year old daughter with Tuberous Sclerosis and curently on
Tegretol to control her epilepsy. The doctor would like to trial Topomax for
her. Has anyone tried this and what do you think?
Side effects?

Howdy!
Just found out from a different information resource that Lamictal can
dramatically increase the libido...
All this time I just thought that it was Lisa Butts' dirty little ditties

Hi y'all
My 15 yr old son was diagnosed with Juvenile Myclonic epilepsy 3 years ago and
was prescribed Epilim. He was fairly stable for all that time until he insisted
that he wanted to start coming off the drug. He did have absenses however

I've recently changed my medication from Tegratol to Topamax  (what fun that
was).
But at 150Mg 2 x day paresthesia,to give pins and needles it's posh name,
felt like someone had plugged me into the mains socket.

I'm is an Epileper.
I have Epileprosey.
People treat me like I am contagious. Like my seizures can be spread through
contact. I have had people run from me when I told them I felt a seizure

Just wondered whether anyone had any info on the effect that some
anti-convulsants (carbamazepine in particular) had on bone mass.  I am a
member of Epilepsy Action (a group in the UK funded by members) and receive
a monthly mag where it had been reported by a few epileptics that ...

I was diagnosed with a low grade tumor in my left frontal-temperal lobes in
July after suffering a grand mal seizure with no previous history.  Now I
get strong tingling down my right side as an aura and can't tell whether
this is muscle spasms or not.  Is there a guideline for ...

Can someone give me the name of the best Neurologist in the U.S. for
treating seizures?  Thanks for your help.