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Hello, I am the father of a 17 year old male teen who was first diagnosed with epilepsy at 14 in July 2020 due to a seizure (his first) he had in the same month. He was started on Depakote which he took regularly for some time (likely a year). I say likely because at some point without telling...

Hey everyone So, I've found a neurologist who believes I could be an excellent candidate for surgery. We are starting the eligibility testing this week, just to confirm. I had asked another doctor about it years ago, but was told it wouldn't work for me, even though they couldn't give me a...

This is probably going to sound absolutely insane (which it is), but my mother doesn't want to acknowledge that I really am having temporal lobe seizures. The reason for her denial seems to be that over the past 2 years of her own health issues, she's gotten sucked a little too far into the...

Good morning! I have done a little bit of posting here in this wonderful forum, and learned a lot, but never gotten around to introducing myself. So here goes! My 15-year old daughter suffered her first known seizures about 6 weeks ago. She had 3 t-c seizures - the first one by herself in her...

I just bumped into this site last week. It brought tears to my eyes instantly. I have been considering what it means to me since. My daughter Isabella Gabriella has a very complex siezure disorder. It has been 3 years in play. Up and downs, success and failure. I only wish that I had...

Hi everyone. Since I don't quite know how to start, let me start like this: It's been two weeks since my wife took our 11 month old son (youngest of two) to the emergency room. And I still can't put words to the feelings that I've been through since. Me? Well, I'm just your not very average 38...