My son Andy has been having seizures for about 2 years. He is 16 and
it's tough enough being 16 let alone dealing with this..Do me a favor
if there any other teenagers out there going through the same thing
let me know so he could e-mail you and maybe help him deal with this.

Hello gurus,
I know, I may sometimes ask a "so called stupid question" but I am not sure
if the following is really worthwhile telling my neurologist. I have to go
meet her at the end of June this year. Here is the story.

who has experience with the side effects of keppra?
i'm taking it for a while now. and i got the feeling, something's wrong
.. can't concentrate, having moments of absolute aggression or depression
(althoung i'm really not that kind of person). all the things i once liked

Does the condition 'Epilepsy' derive from the word 'Episode'?
My physician prefers to use the latter term, until more information comes
in.
Thanks.

Hello all. I am posting to this newsgroup because after much
deliberation and consideration,I fear that the things happening to me
lately can no longer be ignored and that I may have indeed developed
epilepsy. This is probably going to be long as I wish to include as

Howdy ladies!
How are my favorite girls in the whole cyber-world?

I hope you don't mind me posting here, but I'd like to tell you all about a
fund raising event we are holding in Derby, UK on July 10th 2004.
We are having a sponsored bed push around the city of Derby.  We are trying
to raise money for Epilepsy Action while also raising awareness ...

I dunno if this was seizure related or not.  All I know it was kind-of
weird.  I was riding in the car with my parents on the way to a doctor
appointment.  I was sitting in the front passenger seat with a soda
balanced between my knees.  I like blacked out and the soda had fell and

Hi there group ...haven't posted for awhile but I have a question.I take
Tegritol and have bad allergys"seasonal" like millions...I always try not to
take anything but this year the pollen in NS seems to be killing me and no
sleep isn't good as I keep waking up sneezing..

Howdy!
I went to the Cyberonics VNS message board and found this:
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Cyberonics has permanently discontinued the VNS Therapy Message Board. The

  I found this sight on a search of my own for answers. I know with 101%
that my seizures where caused by Marijuana. Back in April of 2002 I was 18
going on 19 and I had a Grand Mal Seizure a couple minutes after smoking
Marijuana. That was the first time I ever smoked it. Then in ...

I was just at an appointment with my neurologist on Wednesday.  I had a
bunch of tests run in April, but he doesn't have the results yet.  But
he did tell me if they turned out like the ones I had run in December,
then he would want to skip all medications and have me get a VNS.

Epilepsy is well known but is not often well understood. Around
350,000 people may have epilepsy in Canada; Epilepsy is a recurring
disruption of brain function that results in seizures, or ‘fits'.
These fits range from absence seizures (which can be mistaken for

I am new to this support group. I am a little confused about a lot of
things. I guess I would like to know what many other people go through
with epilepsy. I have done everything in my power to help myself but
it is still staying with me. I am in a little denial I guess. Can

Anyone suffering from tinnitus (ringing in ear) found the condition worsened
by taking Keppra?  I had minor ringing in one ear before starting Keppra and
in the past three months the sound has become much more noticable and
irritating.  Wondering if it is a subjective side effect of ...