Hi. I am new to the Coping With Epilepsy forum and want to introduce myself. I am 36 years old and have had epilepsy for 13 years. They began on the first day of my period every month with sensory simple partial seizures followed by a secondary convulsive seizure. Once on medication the convulsive seizures stopped and the simple partial seizures manifested themselves differently. They went from seeing purple and red floaters, to seeing people in what seemed like positive and negative space (don't know how else to describe it), to hallucinations. I am currently on Lamictal and folic acid. I am looking into alternative treatments to epilepsy and will listen to any advice regarding these. So far so good on the forum! I'm very happy to be here.