Just thought I'd introduce myself.
I'm 42 and was diagnosed with epilepsy at around 9 years of age. I have febrile convulsions as a toddler, transferred to having complex partial seizures when I was in primary school which was only caught when my teacher noticed that when he was doing a math quiz and reading out questions I'd have the answers for the first couple, miss the middle questions and then have answered the last few questions. My mom had thought I was just ignoring her when I didn't answer her when she called. When I hit puberty I started with tonic clonic seizures. I was put on to Epilim which fairly well controls the seizures so I may only have one every 2 or 3 years.
With family history my father had/has night terrors and I had a cousin who died as a baby with hydroencephilitis. No one in my family had any epilepy until I reached 18 and my younger brother hit puberty and had his first tonic clonic seizure.
I am now married, have a child but as my husband had epilepsy as a teenager and his mother has seizures I keep an eye on her for any signs. So far she has not developed any symptoms.
I thought I'd drop in, read a little as I'm finding out now that there is so much information I was never given as I was a child when first diagnosed.
I'm 42 and was diagnosed with epilepsy at around 9 years of age. I have febrile convulsions as a toddler, transferred to having complex partial seizures when I was in primary school which was only caught when my teacher noticed that when he was doing a math quiz and reading out questions I'd have the answers for the first couple, miss the middle questions and then have answered the last few questions. My mom had thought I was just ignoring her when I didn't answer her when she called. When I hit puberty I started with tonic clonic seizures. I was put on to Epilim which fairly well controls the seizures so I may only have one every 2 or 3 years.
With family history my father had/has night terrors and I had a cousin who died as a baby with hydroencephilitis. No one in my family had any epilepy until I reached 18 and my younger brother hit puberty and had his first tonic clonic seizure.
I am now married, have a child but as my husband had epilepsy as a teenager and his mother has seizures I keep an eye on her for any signs. So far she has not developed any symptoms.
I thought I'd drop in, read a little as I'm finding out now that there is so much information I was never given as I was a child when first diagnosed.
