Just signed in/on site and am posting the ME! Have had seizures all my life (mother first noticed them when I was 3 mos...but M.D. confirmed at 5 years with gran mal.) Was then put on liquid phenobarb 1 spoon at nite. Graduated/demoted to complex-partials at 12 and have been there ever since. You name it, I've taken it at one time or another. Currently on Keppra, one 500 mg. a.m. and p.m. and one 97.2 phenobarb p.m. Have not had cp in 2 months...only the simple kind w/auras. Cannot have brain surgery and am apprehensive about VNS.