You know you have epilepsy if...

[darcness]

You have epilepsy when everybody at the pharmacy knows you without asking your name!

Don't I know it. Heck I'm not even the one with E and they STILL know me. Between my Zoloft and Xanax, my wife's Lexapro, Xanax, and Depakote I'm in there once a week I swear. I honestly think they will get a point that they won't even have to ask any more.

[Cinnabar]

...your boyfriend comes running to your rescue, hearing a thump. You simply trying to unjam a window.

[darcness]

...your boyfriend comes running to your rescue, hearing a thump. You simply trying to unjam a window.

I know this one too. When my anxiety was bad and I wasn't coping well or on any of my p-meds, I would worry about my wife constantly. I couldn't even leave her alone for more than 30 minutes without worrying. Every noise was a cause to go running to her.

[Cinnabar]

That's love!

[darcness]

Yeah but it's also me having a nervous breakdown. Ha!

I am donig much better now so I can laugh at it. At the time though, I wasn't handling things well at all. Very worried all the time and driving myself insane with it. I'm glad I've gone through therapy now and found CWE and the other forum I linked you to.

Over time things get easier to cope with and we can handle all of us. It just takes a while to get over the intial shock.

[Cinnabar]

My first episode was a shock to me. So late in life. My anxiety is wrapped up with a bit of OCD where I replay problem scenarios over and over. This might work for you.... It's called "flooding". Imagine the worst possible scenario and you might find relief. But you have to imagine it, feel it and then use your own power to place it in a room in your mind. Compartmentalize it. It's worked for me a few times providing great relief. Being that you're in therapy you might want to bring this up first before trying it. It's known as Behavioral Modification. But I wouldn't try it until you speak with your therapist. Nothing worse than crawling with anxiety. I hear you.

[majormana]

You know you have epilepsy if you come to on phone and you have no idea how you got on it and friend is asken if your ok and if you want them to call 911

[Aubrey]

you know you have epilepsy when...
you drop a pan in the kitchen and then you have to shout "I'M OKAY!!" so the whole house doesn't come running
... or when you are at a B&B with your hubby and your coffee has a whole lotta cream in it, and so does the tablecloth
... or you are mortified when your hubby is discussing your changing complex-partial seizure expression with your MOTHER, and he unthinkingly prefaces his sentence with "she was looking down at me" (oh no he didn't!)

[Cinnabar]

You know you have Epilepsy when it takes you two days to re-learn how to spell your name after the fall. You now you have it if you can't pronounce it....

[LuvMyTwins]

OK Here's My Take.....

You know that you have epilepsy if......

You go to get your blood levels done and are the person to find the correct medicines, on the computer, for the specialist to test.

[alivenwell]

You know you have epilepsy when a car ride around the block is just as thrilling to you as it is to your dog.

[Cinnabar]

You know you have Epilepy when you read Alivenell's post above after just having driven around the block after not having driven for two years.

[majormana]

you know you have epilepsy if you find your self near bedroom door at 7pm and no clue how you got there.

[Eve]

Originally Posted by alivenwell View Post:
You have epilepsy when everybody at the pharmacy knows you without asking your name!

I know the feeling. When ever I go to the Pharmacy , they all know my name and it's kinda embarrassing, they make me feel like I am a regular at a bar or something.

Whenever I tell my friends about my seizure problem most of them "freak out" and they look at me like I confessed to being a vampire or something. So now, I hardly tell anybody.........................

[EVOL]

You know you have epilepsy, if the first thing you say to the EMT when you come out of it is .."You know, we really need to stop meeting like this. "

I had a time like that when i was about 15, saw the same EMTs like 7 times although i only remembered seeing them maybe 3

[EVOL]

you know you have epilepsy when...
you drop a pan in the kitchen and then you have to shout "I'M OKAY!!" so the whole house doesn't come running
... or when you are at a B&B with your hubby and your coffee has a whole lotta cream in it, and so does the tablecloth
... or you are mortified when your hubby is discussing your changing complex-partial seizure expression with your MOTHER, and he unthinkingly prefaces his sentence with "she was looking down at me" (oh no he didn't!)

lol@ the i'm okay...i had to get used to if i dropped something in the shower people knocking on the door and asking if i was ok. It's horrible when the last thing u remember is taking a pee or a shower and waking up in a puddle or the hospital naked.

[EVOL]

I always hated it when my friends, co-workers, just basically anyone who wasn't epileptic would crack a joke about the epilepsy and still do but this is a whole new dynamic when it's other epileptics.

*You know you have epilepsy when: you wake up next to your girlfriend and she says: "god you were fantastic"*

*You know you have epilepsy when: you wake up to a pretty girl and wonder how she got there and where you are.....this also happens if you drink alot*

*You know you're epileptic when: you go out on a drive for something but when you get there cant remember what it was*

*You know you're epileptic when: You take a drive and 3 blocks later forgot where you are and why you were driving or where you were headed in the first place*

*You know you're epileptic when: you plan a trip only to have to drive back home cause you forgot your meds and when you get there you forgot why you came and where you came from*

*You know you're epileptic when: you ask the tattoo artist for a maltese cross and end up with a squiggly plus sign*

*When you wake up in a pool of blood and can't figure where it came from but you have a funny taste in your mouth you're either epileptic or a forgetful vampire*

[Chris515]

good jokes EVOL!

you know you have epilepsy when: you wake up on the floor, naked, in a pool of blood.


I fell out of bed, hit my head and bit my tongue really really bad. (still haven't been able to get the blood stain out of the carpet)

apparently after the seizure I was determined to take my clothes off, and I kept telling my fiance that. afterwards I fell asleep, and woke up a while later naked and confused.

I don't remember any of it, and I have no idea why I would have wanted to take my clothes off.

Anyone else do things that don't make sense and don't remember them after?

[Aubrey]

*When you wake up in a pool of blood and can't figure where it came from but you have a funny taste in your mouth you're either epileptic or a forgetful vampire*:

Is this how you quote from somebody else's post?

[Meetz1064]

Except I've done it worse.

I closed one night at a restaurant, got back at 4 in the morning. Fell asleep by 5, dozed for a little over an hour or so, got the kids up for school, went back to bed by 7. Was sound asleep. Had a tonic clonic sometime in my sleep.

Next thing I know, my best friend from 2 blocks down is running down (she was talking to a neighbor on the phone who told her what was going on.) I'm sitting in my front yard, legs spread wide open, with only a half t-shirt on......and construction workers on a rooftop across the street were evidently thoroughly enjoying themselves.

I, um, evidently do this on a fairly regular basis when I have t/c's.....and I remember nothing......only what I'm told about it.

*blushing*

Talk about embarrassing..........