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[Dostoyevsky's Heir]

Hello. So I joined mostly because I had a question to begin with, though I was looking for an epilepsy forum but just kept putting it off. I'll ask my question elsewhere.

In any case I am 28 years old, a student in a Great Books liberal arts program. I have only partial seizures so far, though after what seems to have been an ecstatic episode, which I will load to my YouTube today hopefully, I almost had a gran mal, I think. But the drugs seem to be keeping me from going into one. I recently got a VNS device, though it does not seem to be working, or only partially.

I like wine, reading andwriting (I am hypergraphic) Also philosophy. I also like to try and keep up with the news, especially in Europe since I think the world exists beyond our country and what happens elsewhere affects us! I am somewhere between Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. My former neurologist thought all this very interesting--my interesting in religion, similar to Dostoyevsky. And I am big on Dostoyevsky of course. And Aristotle.

 

[Nakamova]

Hi DH! Welcome to CWE!

At first glance I thought your user name was referring to Dostoevsky's coif. I am in the middle of The Idiot right now, getting a very different impression than when I skimmed it in high school (long before I developed epilepsy)...

Make yourself at home!

 

[valeriedl]

This is a great forum. I've gotten a lot of help and advice on here concerning epilepsy and seizures.

I also have a VNS. I still have seizures but not as many and they aren't as bad as before I got it. It has helped me out a good bit though.

Nice to meet you!

 

[Joyful]

I, too, have gotten lots of help and good advice from this forum - welcome!

After going over thirty yrs w/ epilepsy(you can read my story on my about pg), my neurologist only just told me abt. the VNS treatment. At first I was all for it, but after reading more about it I got kinda' scared off - I mean, what if I go through all that, and then it doesn't work?
No thanks. I chose not to get it done. But I hear it has been very successful for many. I hope it works out for you.
I've had many grand mals and even more petit and partial seizures - too many to count! I choose to look for the good in having epilepsy. The best reason I can think of I have already posted elsewhere, but will repeat...
The reason that I am actually thankful for having epilepsy is that if I didn't have it I would have never considered adopting, and would therefore never have gotten my wonderful son!
So, yes, God has a reason for everything!

 

[Pricilla]

I'm new here too, just wanted to say howdy!

 

[Dostoyevsky's Heir]

Thanks all. I had to put The Idiot back for a while. Reading for school. I am reading Bacon, whom I rather hate because I find him condescending. I do like the name though! Bacon!!!! Yummy!