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I get really tired in the late mornings and almost can't help myself from falling asleep sometimes it's before I have a seizure and one thing I've noticed is my hands and feet and lower arms and legs will go numb and tingle like falling aslleep with a little bit of tingling pain- I wonder how many people have this happen and if you know what it's from?

This really isn't epilepsy or seizure related but I was wondering if any of you ever had bad dreams but not nightmares. Really just dreams that are really negative. My reason for this question is because I go through this a couple of times and when I do my wife wakes me up because while sleeping I do shout or just even talk in my sleep. The last time just happened today while taking a long nap before our trip back home from our vacation tonight and I did have one where I actually thought my… read more

When you are applying for a job or attending a job interview, are you informing them about your seizures or Epilepsy? Cause I believed, some employer will have second thoughts of hiring someone who have this kind of illness specially those in the medical field.

Does anyone ever feel like they're going to have a seizure not like an aura but you can just feel it lurking in the background just waiting for a slight change in mood or for you to slip up so it can come?

The headache seems persistent accompanied with a vibration type sensation and buzz that comes in goes in the ears. Like inside the ears. It makes all other sounds seem muffled.

Sometimes I get a headaches and they feel like I've been hit round the head with a hammer, with these ones they'll only last a few minutes.

But after I've had a seizure I have a headache like I'm hungover that's how I feel and no pain killer will help and my dr won't prescribed me with anything to take for these sort headaches.

Hi, just a question if anyone suffers from side effects of keppra and if there is a time frame before they will subside? I'm on a mixture of lamictal, zonegran and keppra. I've been on the keppra for around 4 years at a high dose 3,500mg and was advised to reduce it by my neurologist. I did this successfully by 750mg then my seizures came back so I've been upped to 3,250mg .. this was 2 months ago now and the side effects are driving me mad!! Constant nausea, vertigo, jerking of my arms (even… read more

Had anyone ever experienced issues with the drug Cymbalta? My doctor ill advised me to stop it cold turkey and suggested that the Effexor he started me on would help with any type of withdrawal. Well I ended up in the ER for the 8TH TIME because I'm withdrawing from a sharp decrease in Lamictal and cold turkey on Cymbalta with new side effects from Effexor. I have read that there had been lawsuits against the FDA regarding the withdrawl symptoms and lack of sufficient studies. I now see why for… read more

Hello.

Do you guys also experience an extreme sense of lonliness at times?

I am ussually fine, but today I was at a farmers market and suddenly remembered something good when I wad in a relationship.
Has this happened to anyone els3?

Has anyone had experience with cannabidiol, the active ingredient in Charlotte's Web?