Hi everyone! I have never posted on this, but I am feeling very desperate. I am 22 years old and I had my first seizure at 19 years old. I was asleep and I just woke up to my family and EMT’s in my room. I was put on tegretol 100 mg and I didn’t have any problems after that. I have always hated the way my medicine made me feel so when I was 21 I stopped taking my medicine (so stupid) well, obviously I had another seizure. This one was just like the other one. I was asleep and I woke up to strange EMT’s in my room haha. Ever since then I decided I was never going off my medicine and I took it religiously. I had been seizure free 1 year and 4 months, until last Saturday. The reason I believe I had my seizure was because about a month ago I ran out of my prescription. The Pharmacy tried to contact my doctor and he denied my prescription, saying he wouldn’t give me more until I went in to see him. I think this is so irresponsible because everyone knows you cannot just go off the medicine. I spent the next couple of weeks trying to call the office, but every time I called the office would just ring and ring and they had no answering service. I called my regular doctor and asked him for a prescription of tegretol while all of this was going on and he gave me the prescription. I finally got a hold of my neurologist and he said the first appointment he could give me was February 11th. I noticed my prescription wouldn’t last until then if I took it twice a day like I was supposed to, so I began taking it once a day. Well, BIG MISTAKE. I was at a bar with my friends and obviously I wasn’t drinking, but I began to feel very strange. I wasn’t able to tell my mouth to speak, but my brain was still working normally. My friends drink came and I thought that maybe if I had a sip of something it would make me feel better (I hadn’t eaten that much that day and I thought my blood sugar was low) When I went to take a sip I couldn’t tell my mouth to sip. Eventually my brain stopped thinking in coherent thoughts, the words were all out of order and the last thing I remember is pushing my friends drink back. I woke up on the cement. I had fallen off my chair and had a seizure. I will be moving to Los Angeles in 2 weeks and I cannot afford to not drive. I do believe I would be fine to drive because its like I said, when I am on my normal dose of medicine I can go years without seizures. I even forget I have them. I also realized this last time that I have ample time to warn me that a seizure is coming and I would be able to pull over. I am just curious what my fellow seizure people think haha.