I am looking for some words of wisdom.  I found my 5 year old daughter
on the floor yesterday morning with vomit dried to her hair.  She was
in a trance.  She wouldn't respond to us at all.  We called an
ambulance and they told us she was having a seizure.  They brought her

Off on a sailing course next week to bag yet another certificate, and I
was honest and told the authority over the phone that I had epilepsy in
the past. "No problem, just so the skipper knows"...
Through the post comes a whole load of bumph including a health

Welcome back from Wales.
May I ask you, in all sincerity, how do you pronounce the word
'Worcestershire?

My daughter was crying after her appt. today because she hated the
neurologist.  We only have 1 pediatric neurologist here and the nearest
other options would probably be Seattle, which is 300 miles away.  I knew
him from a previous meeting where he was a guest speaker at a group I ...

please explain this to me. I've been told that I have Pseudoepilepsy:
and or real epilepsy. I have had a VEEG but I did not have a seizure.
the EEG was abnormal. I have had a seizure during a eeg during the
stobe part of the seizure. I wet myself when I seizure sometime I bite

Hi has any one heard of Rogaine causing a seizures? Dave

I don't have to get the VNS.  The test results came back really
good-which was a miracle.  I am so happy.  According to my neurologist,
the Keppra I am taking is finally working.  I don't think it does much,
but it must have been working at the time of the tests.

I'm back from two weeks in Wales.
Lst Saturday we went to a concert in which our daughter ws playing. It ws
supposed to be in the open in the National Botanic Garden of Wales but
becuase of threatening rain it ws held in the glass house, an inconvenient

My husband has epilepsy.. had 3 grand mal seizures in 1994 and was put
on Dilantin.  He has not had any since and has maintained on his meds
because he drives a commericial truck.  He plows during the winter, at
night with strobes, and does 16-hour overnight shifts.  It kills me

especially for......NEWCOMERS TO THE INTERNET
If you haven't had one [or multiples of two..a week] of those 'Nigerian Scam
Letters', well here's one found in my post.
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hi all, I look after a young lady who has learning disabilities, behavioural
difficulties and epilepsy.  we have  great problem administering the
carbomazepine and sodium valproate meds.  she tends to spit them out and it
not sure that she has taken the right amount.  she will not ...

I have an appointment with my neurologist coming up on the seventh.  It
is when I find out the lastest test results and whether or not he will
want me to get the VNS device.  I am about to go crazy just thinking
about it.  I pretty much already know what he will say, but I am so

I went to visit "Dr. Welby" (a childhood friend
who became a neurologist, one with his own
clinic) recently, and spent almost a week at his
house under observation, with a 4-day ambulatory

is not eating enough a normal trigger for seizures?  My daughter finds that
when she has not had enough to eat or if she eats a meal later than usual,
it triggers off seizures.  A friend of mine is a nurse and suggested perhaps
a fasting glucose test, but it was not that long ago ...

My husband is an epileptic. He uses marijuana alot. It really seems to help
him. I heard a news report on this a while ago when they were talking about the
different future uses for marijuana but I wanted to hear from all you people
here and see if you have found this to be true.