With all the far worse various health issues the last thing I'd ever worry bout a child getting is epilepsy You must realize it is just a condition not a disease that could kill. Imagine if son had a faulty heart instead. Or a certain type of diabetes. Modern day ways to treat epilepsy are great. As said may have 2 or 3 seizures in an entire year. My kids can't believe after growing up with my frequent drop down types why people still are so scared of seizures. My niece was amazed bout 20 years ago in nursing school how epilepsy was still viewed. If son gets it when older think you should both be able to handle it. Please don't let him feel this is a monster waiting now. Not from brain damge or disease either.

Thank you everyone for sharing you're experiences with me I might not reply to all of them but I am sure reading all the posts from you guys 💯

I had a seizure when I was 9, as far as we knew no one else in the family suffered with epilepsy or blackouts, anything seizure related... when I was put on Tegratol my Nan piped up saying she took it for blackouts 😐 this was years later. None of her kids have epilepsy but my Dad had a seizure and that was down to something else, not epilepsy related. So it did skip a generation as @A MyEpilepsyTeam Member said.it can do. Hope this helps ease your mind.

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My Grandmother never told me that her sister had seizures, and so did her daughter till I was going in for my surgery. This is something that families don't like to talk about. This is why the struggles continue. I also break expectations and hopefully one day this will not have the stigma that it does now. Your son can have a normal life. Most either get it as young children or at retirement age. I was the weird exception. They were not even sure what to do with me. I was considered un explored territory at the moment.

@A MyEpilepsyTeam Member Well you can always take a genetic test. If it does come back as genetic then there would be a lot of other questions including what is it? But the other way is TBI damage.

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