Hi my name is Krista and I'm 20 years old. I've been struggled with heart problems for the last two years and I had surgery for that a year ago in december. The surgery was successful, but recently my EKGs started showing problems again. On top of that this year I was diagnosed with epilespsy. I have grand mal and absense seizures. I was having almost daily grand mal seizures and they come in clusters. They just changed my medication to depakote and I went one whole week and three days without having a grand mal!! Yesterday was the first time I had a grand mal since the medication change. I still have daily absence seizures though. The doctor's aren't sure what brought on my epilepsy. They also tell me I'm difficult to treat because of my heart and because I have extremely low blood pressure. I don't really know why the blood pressure matters. I'm having a hard time because it feels like my life was riped out from under me. There's days where I want to crawl out of my own body. I have to wear a helmet till we get things under control because I've had to many concussions. I was out with one of my friends the other day and she asked me if I could just take it off when we were in public because people look at us funny. I felt really bad and I don't even want to wear it anymore. I also hate not driving and having to depend on others for transportating. It takes away all of my freedom. I'm not this negative all the time but right now this is the hardest thing I've ever had to handle. I'm just kinda looking for some advice and to hear others stories.