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| Epilepsy is just mad cow disease !!! | 29 Dec 2005 14:42 GMT | 4 |
You probably ate too much beef, so your brain is now being eaten by the prions. Bad for you !
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| Help I need advice | 28 Dec 2005 23:33 GMT | 3 |
I had a disturbing even a few days ago and I am just beginning to recover. First of all let me tell you I have had epilepsy when I was younger but haven't had a seizure for years and no longer take medication. I
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| Zonegran | 27 Dec 2005 23:34 GMT | 4 |
Hello. Newbie here. My neurologist has sent me some samples of Zonegran to control my simple partial seizures. Does anyone here currently take this, and if so what side affects have you experienced? Also, how much does
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| Help! Episodes and the computer | 23 Dec 2005 21:13 GMT | 15 |
I have rose filter glasses, adjusted my computer refresh rate and also brightness, but after only three hours on the computer at work I'm still getting little episodes - I'm talking like 1-5 seconds (simple partial epilepsy). Any other adjustments I can make? I'm new to the
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| Clonazepam | 22 Dec 2005 03:26 GMT | 17 |
I have now started my chnages in the medication I take. Although taking 1200mg Tegratol I have been told to take the above drug at night time (I have ni idea what this drug is for or what it does). But since Friday of last week I have 5 very nasty seizures. I am also due to ...
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| U.S. Ep Foundation Information on Medications | 19 Dec 2005 23:15 GMT | 2 |
The main U.S. Epilepsy Foundation Website I found at http://www.efa.org , but I think the earlier one http://efa.org goes to the same place? The Medications link is under above site after some searching, but the Direct Link is at
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| felbatol and pregnancy | 19 Dec 2005 04:15 GMT | 2 |
Please , if anyone reads this who takes felbatol, and has breast fed a child will you contact me . I am very torn , and dont know what to do !!
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| Websites about Epilepsy | 18 Dec 2005 17:53 GMT | 5 |
This is the Website post I said I'd post again. The First Aid Site that lists what each seizure type looks like is at ***s below. Inside that link is another one for First Aid in Water (swimming). If the page has a coloured background, there is a button or something
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| EEG MRI New Doc | 18 Dec 2005 03:35 GMT | 8 |
Hi Gang, my husband and I went to visit my new doctor. He a Stanford-trained epileptologist and the Medical Director of the Idaho Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, which just opened this fall. We are very impressed with the time he spent with us and are looking forward to a
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| fairly new meds Zonogran | 17 Dec 2005 20:42 GMT | 3 |
I have been put on several different meds over the last few years to control my seizures.Dilantin Keppra,neorantin,topomax.So far Zonogran seems to work the best for me with virtually no side effects.
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| General Websites on Epilepsy I've found useful | 17 Dec 2005 20:38 GMT | 1 |
I posted this list of websites about 3 weeks ago. Here it is again. --> The main Idaho Epilepsy News site is at http://www.epilepsyidaho.org . Within that are links that also go through an Education area called Learn
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| www.epilepsy.com | 17 Dec 2005 00:00 GMT | 4 |
Folk, this one website of www.epilepsy.com is just the start of a huge amount of information concerning epilepsy. There is a site map which is an index and can be found at www.epilepsy.com/sitemap/sitemap.html What is available in more indepth details, for example: details about the
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| Change in seizures | 16 Dec 2005 16:40 GMT | 7 |
I was diagnosed with complex partial seizures about four years ago and have been on 400 mg of Tegretol XR ever since. I was seizure-free until this year and now have had two. What concerns me is that I've noticed a change. I used to be able to
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| Bone density issues and medications | 15 Dec 2005 15:07 GMT | 8 |
This is my first new topic post to this group although I've been reading the messages for going on 15 years. When I was 25, I rolled my Datsun 280Z and because it was 1984, you can guess that my seatbelt was unused. My head went thru the passenger side window as the car rolled,
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| question regarding pre-employment drug testing and AED's | 07 Dec 2005 07:34 GMT | 5 |
Does anyone know if Topomax and Lamictal show up on drug screening tests? If so, does it show up as a drug that may cause an employer 'not' to hire a potential employee? I thought they only looked for narcotics but I'm not sure.
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