Hi friends,
Im new here, and though I do not have epilepsy I do have a brother suffering from it and I wanted to ask a few questions that have been boggling me.
My mother told me that when I was 3 years old that I suffered two seizures in 24 hours. Following the seizures I fell asleep for 6 straight hours and woke up to suddenly have another one both from which I slept. The docter checked me out and tested me. His diagnosis was that I did not have epilepsy and that it was in fact a parasitic infection, worms in my intestine,that caused it. He was right. I never experienced anything after that and im 26 now.
My brother on the otherhand was diagnosed with epilepsy two years ago. He gets a seizure about every 6-10 months (one of which cost him his job). He's a great guy and I wish this wasn't the case.
What I have been thinking though is that because our family has absolutely no history of Epilepsy that maybe this infection could be caused by a parasite? The only thing else he seems to suffer from is a nasty case of athlethes foot! He developed this illness at about 19 years of age. Unusually he seems to recover from a seizure right away, following his seizures he usually just has a cigarette and says "oh well sh*t happens". Last week he went to the gym one hour after having a heavy seizure (lasting 3 minutes or so) and did not feel a bit sleepy or jaded from it which I have heard from epileptic friends is most unusual.
Im looking for the advice of people here on this question which is wrecking my head at the moment.
Cheers.
Im new here, and though I do not have epilepsy I do have a brother suffering from it and I wanted to ask a few questions that have been boggling me.
My mother told me that when I was 3 years old that I suffered two seizures in 24 hours. Following the seizures I fell asleep for 6 straight hours and woke up to suddenly have another one both from which I slept. The docter checked me out and tested me. His diagnosis was that I did not have epilepsy and that it was in fact a parasitic infection, worms in my intestine,that caused it. He was right. I never experienced anything after that and im 26 now.
My brother on the otherhand was diagnosed with epilepsy two years ago. He gets a seizure about every 6-10 months (one of which cost him his job). He's a great guy and I wish this wasn't the case.
What I have been thinking though is that because our family has absolutely no history of Epilepsy that maybe this infection could be caused by a parasite? The only thing else he seems to suffer from is a nasty case of athlethes foot! He developed this illness at about 19 years of age. Unusually he seems to recover from a seizure right away, following his seizures he usually just has a cigarette and says "oh well sh*t happens". Last week he went to the gym one hour after having a heavy seizure (lasting 3 minutes or so) and did not feel a bit sleepy or jaded from it which I have heard from epileptic friends is most unusual.
Im looking for the advice of people here on this question which is wrecking my head at the moment.
Cheers.