I am a 46 year old male, I suffered from mild epilepsy from 10 to about 14 but was never treated for it. For alot of personal and probably stupid reasons, the best one of which was my younger sister had pretty severe sezures and I watched my parent have her medicated for it(being a child myself I had no idea what the doctors treated her with) but I do know she was a zombie most of the time so I really just kept it to myself and eventually it went away. When I had childern my daughter at about 14 started to have sezures and was diagnosed with Epilepsy and put on Limictal, when she went to college, I found out after the fact that she took her self off of the medication and she has been fine, now 24 and married.
It seems like about a year ago I started to have sezures in my sleep and didn't relise ti was happening till the third or fouth one. I haven't had anymore at nite but now they are happening in the daytime. I can sense when it is about to happen, I get this panic feeling and a sicking feeling in my stomach. If I react quickly and sit down or lay down and fight it mentally 75% of the time I can make it pass. But the other 25% of the time I can not fight it an out I go, from what I can gather it is only for a few seconds before I regaine consiousness, but the really scary thing is that I do not recognise my own body or the langauge being spoken and have no motor skills. It feels like I am in a box and I can't get out. I'm am afraid that one of these times I am not going to find the way back out! Medication is out fothe question and I am not going to the Doctor, it si not going to happen.
I would like to know if anybody can tell me from experience if this is going to get worse or this just the way it will alway be and you can always find your way back?
It seems like about a year ago I started to have sezures in my sleep and didn't relise ti was happening till the third or fouth one. I haven't had anymore at nite but now they are happening in the daytime. I can sense when it is about to happen, I get this panic feeling and a sicking feeling in my stomach. If I react quickly and sit down or lay down and fight it mentally 75% of the time I can make it pass. But the other 25% of the time I can not fight it an out I go, from what I can gather it is only for a few seconds before I regaine consiousness, but the really scary thing is that I do not recognise my own body or the langauge being spoken and have no motor skills. It feels like I am in a box and I can't get out. I'm am afraid that one of these times I am not going to find the way back out! Medication is out fothe question and I am not going to the Doctor, it si not going to happen.
I would like to know if anybody can tell me from experience if this is going to get worse or this just the way it will alway be and you can always find your way back?
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