Two Marys!!
I done died and gone to heaven!!!!!!
Mary Bee and Mary Lou!!!
Sounds like the South finally done won the war!!!!

Today I saw my neurologist and apart from getting my dose upped (from
1500mg/day to 1800mg/day of Trileptal), she told me to take my evening
meds with dinner. Now.. My problem at the moment is that I have insanely
erratic sleep patterns and if I were to take my meds with dinner, ...

HE'S HEAVY, HE'S MY BROTHER-IN-LAW
He is argumentative and surly
but his problems started very early-
almost from baby's first breath-

My nephew (lives in Florida) who had been diagnosed as a borderline
epileptic recently suffered two "grand-mal" seizures in one day while
on a vacation in Rocky Mountain National park.  (He had only had the
lesser sort of eplileptic occasions prior to this happening and was on

I've been diagnosed w/ epilepsy for the last 6 years. My seizure are
somewhat controlled, as I don't get any complex partials but still get
a host of smaller ones, espesically areas in sound.
Anyways whenever I am in big groups or in restaurants with co-workers

Hi group,
You have no idea how much it has helped me to have this ng to read and give
me information as well as support. Cody continues to have partial complex
seizures a couple of times a week. His post-ictal state is identical whether

Hi.. i suffered for what i believed a grand mal seizure this gone monday for
2hrs then on wednesday for 1.5hrs .. It started in my right arm and just
spread rapidly into my whole body.. i was taken into hospital on the monday
and they just turned round and said, 'we don't know what ...

Does anyone know about the surgeries that are supposed to control
seizures? Has anyone had a successful/positive experience with surgery?
My 8 year old son recently began experiencing severe epilepsy and his
neurologist has seriously been considering surgery as a viable option

I am a new member.I am wondering if anyone else is in the same position
with their epilepsy as we are. Ihave daughter age 17 who has had
epilepsy for four
years. The seizures started off as just vacancies occassionly. Over the

I have just started taking lamotrigine and have also noticed that I have
a sore throat. It may be a coincidince but I just put the two together
and thought it might be a reaction to the drug.
Has anyone else gotten a sore throat when starting the drug lamotrigine?

I get struck with a vivid Deja Vu about every 4 weeks.  They are so weird.
I can be anywhere doing anything when all of the sudden a feeling that
somehow I recognize this, I've dreamed about this.  Whether I'm sitting in
my office, driving, at the computer, I'm sure I had dreamed ...

I was wondering if anybody here has run into audio/sound hallucinations
with their epilepsy? Mine is quite frightening, i'd like to share it
and hopefully someone else knows of this condition.
Imagine talking, then you here your voice and it 10 times lounder in

For those of you looking for information on surgery, I have created a
section on my web site, which has all of the information on my
epilepsy and the left temporal lobectomy. My site is
http://www.highego.com/ I hope this is helpful!

I have just switched to full dose (2x50 mg) after increasing the dose
for about one month. In addition, I'm on 900 mg/day Valproat. This is,
in fact, my second on full dose of Lamictal. Thing is, though, that
these to days my simple partials (I used to have what was known as ...

I have a sister-in-law who has seizers and I am not sure what to do about
her.  She only has them in the mornings and at that not very often.  She
gets had to deal with though sometimes because she makes it seems like
it's the end of the world.  She can't drive so she depends on me ...