Epilepsy and Handwriting

[jmalters]

My hand writing is not an issue at all. I print everything and have ever since I was in high school....p' od the h s teachers but I didnt care and my cursive sucked anyway...I have actually gotten compliments of my handwriting. Only thing I write cursive is my signature.

[Rhea]

I've been known to write several different ways in one paragraph. Especially if I stop and continue later. Now, I write most everything on word pad or processor.

[Ruth]

When I answer someone in the forum, I print down a word I want to spell right in my answer.

My printing has become legible. The only thing I sign is my signature.

[NicoleLake]

I really cannot answer this, I have had epilepsy since I was 4 so I have never had the oportunity to see if my handwriting was effected.
People always say me handwriting is messy, there are a lot of big loops, but they can always read it pretty easily.

[Ruth]

Hi Nicole,

If people can read your handwriting easily, then you have good handwriting. If it was real messy, they would not be able to read it. That is my anyway.

[NicoleLake]

Yay, no one has ever said I have goof handwriting :-).

EDIT: Oh no I meant good! That is what happens when I rush...

[Ruth]

You have great computer spelling. If anyone has "goof" handwriting, it is me.

[Billyboyboo]

Only when I have tremor or nervous...
But I put No.
Billy.

[Ruth]

I put down on the poll: anti-epileptic drugs has decreased my handwriting. That is what happened to me.

[JimNavy]

My handwriting has always sucked. I quit making notes at work. I just type everything out. Spellcheck is the most awesome tool known to man. Made college a lot easier too.

[Dirt_in_the_ground]

I wouldn't say Epilepsy has effected my hand-writing,but maybe more the tablets I take.
I have noticed an increase in muscle twitches since starting on Keppra,so much so that when I write my hand spasms and my writing looks like a 5 year olds sometimes.

I tend to type things out.

[MelGa]

My medicine causes my hands to shake which causes my handwriting to be terrible.

I prefer to type whenever I can.

[Duke]

Well if I try to write neat thats when i mess up the most. My neurologist even complains about my writing when i bring my seizure diary for him to look at. He told me to try typing it for him next time.
I tend to slant my letters when i write, don't know if that has anything todo with the seizures and meds or not.

[Ruth]

I wouldn't say Epilepsy has effected my hand-writing,but maybe more the tablets I take.
I have noticed an increase in muscle twitches since starting on Keppra,so much so that when I write my hand spasms and my writing looks like a 5 year olds sometimes.

I tend to type things out.

I am on Keppra, as well. I use to have muscle twitches and jerks all of the time, especially with my hands. My neurologist put me on Mysoline for it. It works. My spasms have quit.

[ColmanMac]

It's something which has never occurred to me, I must confess - but there again, I've always had the hand-writing of a Doctor - just ask the secretaries at work!

Col.

[Literophile]

I don't know about epilepsy changing my handwriting, but whenever I have an icepick headache, my handwriting gets much smaller (I have big handwriting).

[stilldancing_98]

After I came out of my coma my writing was so bad. I had to learn my signature again. But just my epilepsy didn't change it. Now my son's is different, if he goes into clusters he has regressed also in his writing.

[crazychick10793]

I work as a teacher cadet in a first grade classroom, and half of them have neater handwriting than me same when I worked in preschool last year

[huskymom]

My hand writing does not seem to be affected, but my typing is. For a day or two following a seizure, I tend to type my words backwards! Strange

[Ruth]

That is interesting, writing backwards. I do that a lot. It is called dylexia. Excuse my spelling.