Here's a decent size story about my epilepsy. Back in 1990 at the end of my sophmore year in high school, I developed a brain abcess that was caused from a sinus infection. After successful surgery my surgeon was almost positive i'd start having seizures in a few years because of scar tissue. Well 3 years later in 1993 while driving my car, I got into a mild wreck after having my first seizure. A miracle my vehicle just went off the side of the road while I went unconscious. From then on I was unable to drive again until I found a great neurologist who put me on a drug called Felbatol in 1997 which put my seizures in remission. Unfortunately though this remission only lasted until 2000 without me having any seizures because I had to move out of state. Once I found another new neurologist I was immediately taken off of the Felbatol once he found out I was taking it. The reason being it causes aplastic anemia and another problem in a small percentage of people. Since not knowing about medication I did what he told me and unfortunately got off of it. So in place of the wonder drug the neurologist put me on a decent drug called Lamictal. This one though didn't completely get rid of the seizures as they did come back, but not as bad as they were before the remission. Well seven years down the road in 2007 I started with the grand mal seizure, the worst! Eventually got so irritating having seizures every two weeks, I had the Vagus Nerve Stimulator implanted in 2008 with not much success. Then in 2009 I had unsuccessful brain surgery to remove scar tissue as it was to late for surgeons to remove it. So the only thing left for me was the wonder drug Felbatol which I had no choice taking again. This time though the wonder drug hasn't put my seizures in remission like last time, but its still doing a wonderful job! I rarely now have any seizures, maybe one to three every six months, and when I do their now only when i'm sleeping. Which is totally awesome!
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