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After Years Of Seizures, And Now Under Control Per State Laws. Do You Think It Would Stress You To Start Driving Again?

A MyEpilepsyTeam Member asked a question 💭
Alpharetta,Roswell,Cumming, GA

Stress is one of the main seizure triggers.

July 30
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A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

If you’re qualified for it, you could do it but I would start out with small trips to the store first. Then you might know more about how it would affect you. But I wouldn’t go out and get on any major freeways

July 30
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

NO! When my seizures came under control, it was the first time I had gotten my license in my life.

August 15
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

Congratulations on your ability to drive again. I live in Alpharetta and really don't have much distance to drive anywhere and not quite yet there on the seizure-free train. I'll keep your and everyone else's comments in my remember to-do list
( remember, yeah right !). Thanks to all who replied. Have a pleasant evening.

July 30
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

Under Canadian Law I am not allowed to ever drive again since 2014, after my first seizure, because I still take only Absence (petit mal) seizures now. (around 20 a year) Before my brain surgery in 2017, I took perpetual Tonic-clonic (Grand mal) seizures, where they once thought I took a Tonic-clonic and it was a real TIA-stroke in 2015. The combo of all the things that have happened to me it makes then to refuse me from ever driving again. This I am OK with, because I never feel that I am going into a seizure. EVER!!

August 2 (edited)
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I drive all the time. I took my truck to Kentucky and back to Michigan one time. In less than 3 years, I have put over 30,000 miles on my truck. I promised my Neurologist if I ever had a seizure, I would put my license up and stop driving. When I had gotten my license, I had never driven in my life. I got all my paperwork ready from my doctor but I didn't need any of it because I had never driven before and never got my license taken away for having seizures.

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