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Plse Share Experience With Other Brands Of Meds, Specifically Medreich Instead Of Tegrotol And Crescent Pharma Instead Of Keppra.
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Can You Grow Out Of Being Epilepsy?
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10 or more years ago someone told my parents that I probably grew out of epilepsy cause there wasn’t any seizures documented for 7 or more years. I was diagnosed with epilepsy when I was 7 years old and eventually it was diagnosed as nocturnal so I don’t really know when I have them. Unless they are possibly a grand mall seizure

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If you have what they call childhood epilepsy and you were diagnosed bellow the age of 10 and your current age is bellow 23 then yes there is a chance you can but once you are out of this range it is… read more

posted 13 hours ago
Any New Foods That I Can Try To Put In My Diet For Epilepsy
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Wow no, I have to force feed myself. I never have the willing to. Water and coffee, man I wish I could be more. Sorry man.

posted 19 hours ago
Can You Still Be Depressed Even Though You're Prescribed 3 Different Meds For Epilepsy (temporal Lobe Damage)?
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My husband is greatly impacted by seizure meds and us on depression meds that seem to do little to help.

posted 17 hours ago
If You Take Phenytoin For A Very Long Time It Can Effect Your Gums And Your Teeth In Later Life
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I have been taking phenytoin for 56 years, one major side effect it has on your gums and teeth, making them come loose then have them out, I want to let anyone who has a denture made in the UK can claim on household contents insurance to pay for them, I did twice and it saved me £8 thousands pounds plus I'm doing it again.

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Hi, LesleyDonnelly, when I first started taking phenytoin 56 years ago my dosage was 600mg a day, now I only take 300mg a day with one other AED, what is your dosage?

posted 1 day ago
Does Anyone Have The Embrace Watch?
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I love mine and it come in handy so many time. Even just to track so I can show my doctor
I would take to your daughter’s doctor and see what you can do to get her one
In my personal experience… read more

posted 2 days ago
Does Anyone Else Have Catamenial Epilepsy? (Epilepsy During Your Period)? Any Tips At All On How To Deal With Them.)
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I’m only in my 30s but I’m exhausted with the seizures. And some happen on nearly the same day/wk every month. For 2 weeks I am somewhat seizure free and appear like a perfectly healthy woman. But then the last week of the month arrives and I am roiling in cluster seizures. I never complained about PMS until I learned it causes those nasty hormonal seizures. Now menopause couldn’t come any sooner…

A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

I have recently come across catamenial epilepsy and it seems to be the one I have..Since October I've started clobazam whilst on my period,I was having auras every month and since starting this I've… read more

posted 2 days ago
My Question Is How Hard Is It To Stay Up All Night? This Sounds Silly, But I Am Used To Going To Bed At 2am. Not 6.
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I am testing all week and have to be on sleep deprivation 6pm to 6am. Got to the hospital today at 8am. Wife awake. Will they wake you up or a beeper go off? if you fall asleep. I know they will be watching.

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The surgeries that I've had and side effects I've had over the years. It has screwed up my sleep patterns. I'm always sleeping it seems like.

posted 9 hours ago
I Suffer With Absences. I've Been Having More The Past Few Months. Since Then I Have Had Tinnitus. Dose Anyone Else Have This Problem?
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A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

Have you checked to see if your seizure meds side effects may have started Tinnitus?

posted 3 days ago
Absent Seizures
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I have three different types of seizures. The one that scares me the most are my absent seizures because I do things I don't know I'm doing and can't feel the pain when I hurt myself till after I come out of it. I put both hands on the burners of the stove and had to go to the burn clinic for three weeks. last year I put my arm in a skillet burnt myself so bad I spent 8 days in the hospital and had a skin graph done. it's still amazes me that I can hurt myself so bad like that and not yell out… read more

A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

I use to get an aura or odd feeling before a seizure but now I get nothing. I really wish I had my life like it was before I had my brain tumor and all these seizures after that

posted 3 days ago
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