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They called it Petit Mal when diagnosed at 7. In 6th grade before getting a Tutor I could not pay attention over 15 minutes. If I had to do any math in school, I could not do normal classes. Eventually in my 20s I was tested, and was found eligible to have a Temporal Lobectomy. I did it because there had never been control on meds. They called them Partial Complex. I was told by not having seizures on the right, other damage to the left dominant side did not take place. I am now controlled, but… read more

Caused me my depression n anxiety n many other health isssues !im now 44 years old and suffered since 8yrs old!i i pray nobody has to goes through this pain of seizures especially TLE🙏😙

My recent stay in an EMU says my seizures come from the right temporal lobe but, it says there's a possibility of extratemporal epilepsy. I always thought I just had right temporal lobe epilepsy but the fact it shown there was a possibility of that does that mean I could have 2 types of epilepsy?

I have Partial Awareness Seizures. They were called Absence and Partial Complex. As a kid of 7 they called them Petit-Mal.

Occipital lobe epilepsy is one of the rarest forms of epilepsy. if you google search it there is little to no information that pops up. I have a blog dedicated to epilepsy and epilepsy awareness and one of my followers had asked me to post more bout occipital lobe epilepsy, I was a little discouraged by the lack of information there is out there. so I am asking for help, does anyone know about occipital lobe epilepsy? anybody have it? what can you tell me? don't leave anything thing out tell me… read more

To those of you who have Occipital lobe Epilepsy, what do you experience? Do you get a lot of headaches/ migraines? Or see flashing lights?

It looks like my diagnosis has slightly changed... So now I more then likely have TLE & OLE.

Eye flickering since seizures started and recently learned that the flickering could be seizures as well. During the seconds that I experience this issue I’m no in control. What is the name for this type of seizure?

Mine were called Absence, now Partial Awareness. Where I live there is no Liability Insurance, so they call 911. I would not trust anyone to administer anything. I now wear a Lifeline button. I had a fall because I had not eaten due to a tooth being pulled, and was in the ER.