What first triggered your epilepsy, if known? (i.e. first seizure)

[missapril]

I was assualted. Kicked in the head and had my nose broken, one month later I had a major seizure in my sleep.

[Krista2882]

I started having seizures when I was 11 or 12- just when I was starting puberty. Eventually they got so bad that they didn't have much of a pattern. I felt like I was having them all the time. Once I was on medication, the breakthrough seizures I had were only around my period. So I marked down "hormones".

[CQ:)]

I 1st started having seizures when I was about 9 months old, I had Tonic Clonic seizures until I was 2 -3. I went about 21 years seizure free until I started taking seizures again in 2002 when I was 24, which were mainly auras & complex partial.

The seizures I had as a baby happened not long after I had a tetanus injection so we think that is what caused my seizures, although we aren't 100% sure. None of the neurologists/epitiologists I've seen know why I started taking seizures again as an adult after having no seizures for so long.

[AC_APT]

Probably the scar left on my brain from a surgery to an avm. And I belive what firt triggered my seizure was the (too) hot weather

[lepetitrouge]

We're not 100% sure, but my neurologist suspects that my epilepsy was caused from having encephalitis at age 16. I remember suffering from many auras and complex-partial seizures aged 17 and 18, and don't recall having them before age 16. At the time, I thought everyone must experience what I was experiencing. And while it bothered me, I didn't tell any doctors. It was only after I was diagnosed with epilepsy (after suffering two generalised seizures in a row aged 19) that I discovered what my 'deja-vu' episodes are