Anyone on this group experienced permanent liver damage from taking one
or more AED?
I've been on Dilantin approaching 2.5 years now and my last blood test
showed AST/ALT levels at 89/217.  Upper normal range for ALT is around

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Vitamin E deficiency and seizures in animals and man.
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Study of 100 children with grand mal convulsive disorders and 100

I posted a message with the subject line "symptoms and seizures" a
couple of weeks back and got several very helpful responses. As
promised, now that the EEG is in I put another message in  the same
message thread but thoughht it might be best and okay to let folks know

Hi all, I am new to the group.  My wife and I are having out first
baby, my wife has epilepsy, and while her seizures are usually at night
once and a while she will have a seizure during the day.  She is
concerned that she might drop or fall on the baby if she has a seizure

Nothing personal, I've enjoyed being here and most of the company.
Why?
I suddenly realised that my life is whistling past and there's more to it
than idle chatter despite the odd nuggets. If I ever have a problem I'll be

Last year at school my 10 year old daughter's teacher mentioned to me
that she had occasional lapses, times when she justy didn't seem to "be
there". In fact, I had thought something the same but did not really
klnow what to make of it and where I live doctors are scarce and tend

ive been doing fine started school at Florida center for the blind i
havent had any seizures in several months when i crashed i had a stroke
so i dont know if it was the stroke or if it was similar to a boxers
injury  that was causing the seizure but i have stopped smoking weed

 Well, it seems to be quiet now so I thought I'd add an off topic piece of
information.  Wed. Sept.14 at 1030PM Toronto time, Jacob Selby Alexander
Ross was born (8 pounds, 2.3 oz / 3694 gm?).  Selby is my Son's
Father-in-Law and he and Lee live in Australia (although Lee is ...

My first post in an extremely long time, mostly because I wasn't having
problems for a while.  I've been on Carbatrol and Lamictal (800 & 100
mg/d respectively), which was working great - the Lamictal
counterbalanced the sleepiness of the Carbatrol very well.  But then I

The end of John O'Grady's life hit me very hard because I've lost a
friend that understood. I met John in 2002 when I first found The
Epilepsy Foundation of Western Ohio. In the Men @ Epilepsy meetings
John's positive attitude toward his disability (seizure disorder)and his

I've been diagnosed with partial onset seizures that, apparently, occur
frequently and have been occurring for about ten years.  Over the last
couple of years I've had enough seizures of greater severity to get me to
the doctor to find out what was going on.

"Fishbone" <da_fishbone@yahooNOSPAM.com> wrote
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One of the things that may trigger my simple partials, seems to be
concentrating very hard on something that may a combination of
theoretical and practical task. For instance, last summer I had bought a
 new PC, and was trying to figure out how to copy from the old

G'day Gang
Just letting you know I haven't shuffled off this mortal coil. Been very
hectic over the last few months, I've shifted house, gained a major
promotion at work, and just recently unfortunately, I lost my father. And

My son already has been diagnosed with epilepsy and I have been wondering if
his emoutional outbursts could be related to that.  First some background,
he was born about 3 month premature at 1lb 12oz, he had an enlarged
ventricle of the brain on the right side.  This is the ...