Greetings from Virginia

[J.Lynn]

Hey there folks! I've been lurking around here and reading. Now I've gotten around to registering!

I'm 47 and was diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy in Nov of '04. I've been on Trileptal since the beginning and so far, so good. I've only had a handful of seizures since starting the meds and only then when I was sick and hospitalized. Stress, probably?

We have a small family farm, I'm a homeschool mom. We only have 1 child still at home. 'Rie is 15 and started having seizures last December.
She is also diabetic. The thread about epilepsy and diabetes in the other "room" caught my eye and is what prompted me to go ahead and register. I want to keep up with that one!

[Bernard]

Hi J.Lynn, welcome to the forums.

Sorry to hear that your daughter was just diagnosed. I'm guessing since both you and your daughter have it that there is a history of seizures in your family? There is in Stacy's maternal branch of the family tree.

[J.Lynn]

Thank you for the welcome, Bernard.

'Rie's neurologist at the children's hospital thinks it is hereditary. He asked for a copy of my EEG report and made a lot of "ah-ha and hmm" noises.
He then suggested that our older daughter have an EEG run also.

Odd, now that I think back, my mother used to drive me nuts when she would come into my home, start sniffing around and proclaim that there was something rotting...probably in my 'fridge. We'd go through the whole thing-everything would be fine with the exception of a couple ongoing 'experiments' But they didn't have an odor. She passed on years ago, but after reading about phantom odors and considering some of her other odd behavior over the years, I've wondered if she had a seizure disorder of some type.

[Bernard]

Well, if that's the worst she had, she did all right.