can anyone tell me what it is like to have one?

Im supporting a young woman in a supported housing project who tells
me she has temporal lobe disorder. She does not know very much about
it apart from she has seizures which are difficult for staff and
residents to deal with. she does not getany help from anywhere and

A co-worker had a grand-Mal seizure.
He has an electronic device implanted under the skin in his upper left
chest muscle.
He also wears a wrist-watch like device which, when he sees an aura, he

Good Afternoon All,
Our 5 year old daughter had an EEG today.  She has been having episodes of
"Spacing out" and tongue chewing for about a month now.  Her pediatrician
checked her over and scheduled her EEG and a follow up to a Pediatric

Need to ask because my seizures come in different varieties.  I have them with
flickering lights, just when I am simply sitting still and in the form of
strange panic attacks.
I had this last night.  See if this sounds familar to anyone becauase it

After finding out about the dangerous of Fenobarbital i had to post
something to this newsgroup.
What i found out is Fenobarbital is bound to cause trouble even in later
life. Toxicomania (drugs/alcohol) is one of the side-effects though i

I am new here, and have read a few of the postings here discussing
auras.
I had epilepsy from age 15-25. I am 49 now, but I think I still have
auras.

I'm looking for a bit of advice please on behalf of my 22 yr old daughter.
Ever since she was a young girl, (we first noticed when she was around 8 or
9 I think), she has be suffering from what appear to be extremely mild
seizures. They ONLY happen when she is asleep/falling asleep, ...

Yesterday arms and legs started trembling out of control, my jaw would not stop shaking, I couldn't speak. and my chest/lungs locked up, I stopped breathing went into some sort of seizure and woke up with a black eye and a scrape on my head. Is there any way to test of epilepsy? ...

I have a relative who needs to be weaned off Tegretol and I'd like to know how quickly and in what decrements can the weaning be done safely?
Also, how quickly should it be done in cases when Tegretol causes agranulocytosis (granulocytopenia)? Say, if the total WBC were normal, ...

One man's effort to make a difference;
http://www.epilepsy-ohio.org/EARTH_Ride/earth_ride.htm
I've been a lurker here for years.  My 35 year old brother, Todd,  has
both simple and complex partials.  His doctors' finally put him on

Hello everyone.  I'm on the hunt for a little assistance.  I have a
client who is searching for a seizure helmet and we;re having a little
problem locating one.
The 10 year old has multiple drop seizures a day and needs something

Im on tegretol retard 1200 a day and have been onm it for 13 years and
seizure free but have been advised by my consultant in London to come off it
as i am thining of having a baby.  He suggested coming off 200mg every 4 or
5 weeks.  Im also on 150 lamotrigine, and 10mg clobazam. ...

my history is as follows:
current age: 49, male
First seizure was a grand mal when I was 15, had many grand mal
seizures thereafter until I was 25, when it somehow went away. During

Have any of you ever been told that your EEG reading was "tight". What
does that mean?
Sorry to keep buggin'. I'm 2 days away from the news. . .
Karen