I'm new here to this forum at "Coping with Epilepsy", but I'm definitely not new to seizures. My online name here is looshawn, and I'm hoping to find info with others who share the same problem as I do.
I've been experiencing epilepsy for almost 30 years now, which began when I was 19. When I remember it now, I think about it; at an ice skating party 2 days after Christmas - it was freezing, freezing cold out - but we were all having so much fun. I was out laughing, talking, with two girls with me at the time it happened. I don't remember the rest of that part but I can tell you what I was told. That when I was out there I fell completely off my skates, slipping back, and landing directly on my head. Yup, head and solid ice.
Long story short, I ended up in the emergency room almost 24 hours later and fell into a coma right into the emergency room within an hour. Doctors at the hospital (and considering that this was also 30 years ago) told my family that I was not expected to live. Six days later, and by the grace of God, I came out of my coma.
Three months later, while still in stages of recovery from my coma, I experienced my first grand mal seizure. Over the years the number of seizures just slowly continued to climb, as did my medications. The quantity of them finally led to my Left Mesial Temporal Lobe removed in 2006.
I want to say that it was kind of successful. I don't have as many grand mal (been good for 5 months), still experience some partials. But the worst thing since my surgery...my short term memory just gets worse and worse! I know I'm not the only one who suffers from this problem...anyone else?
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I've been experiencing epilepsy for almost 30 years now, which began when I was 19. When I remember it now, I think about it; at an ice skating party 2 days after Christmas - it was freezing, freezing cold out - but we were all having so much fun. I was out laughing, talking, with two girls with me at the time it happened. I don't remember the rest of that part but I can tell you what I was told. That when I was out there I fell completely off my skates, slipping back, and landing directly on my head. Yup, head and solid ice.
Long story short, I ended up in the emergency room almost 24 hours later and fell into a coma right into the emergency room within an hour. Doctors at the hospital (and considering that this was also 30 years ago) told my family that I was not expected to live. Six days later, and by the grace of God, I came out of my coma.
Three months later, while still in stages of recovery from my coma, I experienced my first grand mal seizure. Over the years the number of seizures just slowly continued to climb, as did my medications. The quantity of them finally led to my Left Mesial Temporal Lobe removed in 2006.
I want to say that it was kind of successful. I don't have as many grand mal (been good for 5 months), still experience some partials. But the worst thing since my surgery...my short term memory just gets worse and worse! I know I'm not the only one who suffers from this problem...anyone else?
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