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Is there any difference between the way they manage a pregnant woman with status epilepticus in the er and a women with status epilepticus who isn't pregnant? Or is it all treated the same? If they treat them both differently, how so from the other?

I'm 6 weeks and 4 days pregnant and I'm worried about if I end up in the ambulance or the hospital. Will they treat me the same as when I wasn't pregnant or different (more concerned) that I'm pregnant? Has anyone had seizures/ epilepsy when pregnant? I read online that the if the paramedics...

I always dream about my seizures. Have you done this? Is this the way my body could be telling me something? Why would this be happening? For example yesterday when I took my afternoon nap I had a dream that I had to go to the hospital here becuase of my seizures and it was the same doctor that...

Most of us know that before you get pregnant, you should take prenatal vitamins with 0.4 milligrams of folic acid every day, and to keep taking them throughout the pregnancy. Folic acid has been shown to reduce the risk of some birth defects by 60% to 70%. What I didn't know is that MAGNESIUM...

According to HealthDay News -- When a pregnant woman takes the epilepsy medication valproate, her child's intelligence may be lowered for at least three years, and possibly beyond, a new study suggests. Toddlers of moms who took the epilepsy drug valproate during pregnancy had lower IQs than...