I have lost the support.epilepsy newsgroup from my internet provider
for some reason?????
I have found this "google" usenet to temp post this message and was
wondering if anyone can tell me (email me even)if there is another,more

Is anyone out there still on Dilantin like me? If so, do you have times
where the level rises very quickly and you start feeling really irritable
and tired then your sense of balance and even walking properly isn't
possible? The reason I ask is because that's what happened to me ...

Anyone know for sure if lamictal and/or tegretol interacts with claritin? I
found one site that says it does. But I have yet to find others. I took 300
Lamictal + 200 Tegretol this morining (the usual dose) and a claritin about
an hour and a half later. A bit after that I ...

I am now being prescribed Gabapentin, 3600mg on top of my 400 mg
Topiramate and 400 mg of Phenytoin daily. These, of course with a baby
aspirin, multi-vitamin, and the 50 mg of sertraline, me being 57.
Is anyone on the group being prescribed the gabapentin? Having any side

I have had a neck fusion and, this past Wed., a major shoulder surgery.
I had forgotten the unpleasantness of the experience--of which I am
still managing.
Now if a soulder surgery is that bad, what is the recouperation for a

Hi everyone!  I'm new here and looking for support.  I really need people to
chat with.  I was wondering if anyone knew of any chat rooms that actually
had people participating in them.  I've been to a few and had no luck.  So
if anyone could help me out I'd really appreciate it!

Well, today I heard back from the doctor after my video/EEG monitoring, and
they're willing to do the surgery: right temporal lobe resection. I have to
have a few questions answered by the surgeon, but I'm leaning towards it.
I'd love to hear about anyone's experiences with this ...

Today I had an appointment with my neurologist at the hospital. Despite the
promise my previous neurologist made to me six months ago that from that
date she would be my doctor and I would not have to tell the same story
again, I had an appointment with another neurologist. That ...

You need Adobe Acrobat to open and read this study ..
http://neurobiologyoflipids.org/content/3/4/neurolipids022004-01pdf.html
Who loves ya.
Tom

I had an MRI for a broken neck once--caused by a seizure--and the MRI
was very claustrophbic.  I had a CT scan last week that wasn't nearly
as bad, but produed extreme anxiety about the prospect of another
possible MRI, so extreme that I went to the emergency room and got

I understand this may lower one's threshhold, but is this a recognized
cause of seizures in epileptics?  I drink lots of coffee and take
excedrine almost daily.  Ok, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to
figure that this isn't very healthy, but do you my caffeine increase

The first clinical
manifestations (weakness, sexual dysfunction, arthralgia, cardiac
symptoms, dyspnoea on effort) can occur after the age of 30 years in
men and 35 years in women (protected for longer by menstruation,

So how was the ten foot, old, caravan on a wet, wild, windy Welsh
mountainside??
 :)
welcome back we missed ya

What are symptoms of a myoclonic seizure?
I get two kinds of seizures--little ones that are like flinchs: they
feel as if someone turned off my brain for split second and I feel a
jerk in a part of my body.  I used to get many of these--sometimes

If I did the calculations correct it's already Next Year in New Zealand and
Australia.  Hopefully it will have a Happier outlook for the parts of Asia
ravaged by recent events.
  It's strange, sort of, after 50+ years trying to get the U.N. to work and