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Hello everyone, the title of the question is self explanatory, basically 3 days ago I finally took the decision to start a treatment against epilepsy after many years of going without antiepileptic medication and controlling my seizures by myself. I started taking Levetiracetam (some of you know it as Keppra). It was a medicine of my choice as I also have ADHD disorder and any other antiepileptic would worsen my attention deficit so actually my psychiatrist prescribed it to me because I refused… read more

Did epilepsy end your ability to drive, work, be creative?

For some reason I have been smelling funny things that nobody else smells and then have a seizure. Is that some kind of warning that happens to some people before one?

I saw a similar question posted somewhere else the only difference is the question was: How long does it take you to recover after a seiziure?

And I thought well it's a great question but it doesn't really take into account the adjustment time if there is also a dosage increase. So I thought I would re-ask the question here but with the dosage increase taken into account.

Just to give some context to this I had a TC seizure about 4 months ago now there was a dosage increase I have recovered… read more

Ok I know this sounds weird but I'm trying to figure out my age. I'm adopted and even birth certificates notice plural are contradictory. So a church member said I should remember an event from my youngest memory that could help. I Said Regan getting shot. The challenger exploding. Ok he said the 80's that didn't help. So I did discover I like past events though and hearing about them. And I'm not as old as I thought. I don't know what a victory train was bicentennial 76 celebration thing. I… read more

Does anyone get really cold after a seizure or before ?
I've started to take notice of this symptom ,happened after I had a seizure and I remember telling the paramedics that I'm freezing and I was shivering same thing happened to me after a seizure today .