Again, your meds can cause some extreme side affects even memory loss. Talk to your doctor. Depakote is the worst!

Stephanie, mine are called Absence Seizures. I can not know where I am, be extremely confused. Dorothy would know if I were going to have one by what my face and eyes looked like. I have to be near a bathroom. For some reason going helps lessen the seizure if it was minor. A major one could require my sleeping for 3 hours or so.
Lack of enough good sleep, not eating well or enough, and being overheated are all triggers. If I avoid them, they can be avoided. I am doing fairly well, however.
I have never been good with names, but do reconize faces.

Leslie

Memory issues only one of our big struggles, when it comes to Epilepsy and the meds we’re on.

Memory loss plays a big part with epilepsy. Sometimes I can’t even remember what I did yesterday and other times I can remember stuff from months ago.

I do not have a good memory at all. I don’t remember much about my past either, have You ever looked at pictures to remind yourself of the past? One thing that really annoys me is after graduating from college where I wrote a papers that are 20+ pages long and can’t remember a word of what I wrote. I looked at them a year after graduating. I don’t expect to remember those things after a long period of time. But these papers have high grades on them, I have to ask myself “did I really write this?” It is very difficult to live and learn without having a good memory sometimes.