My epilepsy began when I was 8 years old but my parents didn't get this diagnosis until I was 14. Until then, they were told it was emotional and doctors sent me to many different types of doctors before the real problem was discovered at 14. At that age, they were told I had petit mall seizures and I was put on medication after medication and each of them were like “drinking water” as far as helping my seizures. Later on, I went to a neurologist. He told me I had Psychomotor seizures. My seizures hadn’t changed so apparently I was given the wrong diagnosis in the past. He did test after test which included MRI, Cat Scan and more, I just can’t remember them all. He found and told me the cause of my seizures. I will never forget the day I was waiting to see my neurologist. I was in one of his examining rooms and he walks in and says “you are supposed to be dead”. That makes you feel so strange. He went on to explain that the test results showed that at sometime in my life, I had had a brain abscess. He told me I had had an ear infection and it had abscessed and burst. Instead of the infection draining out of the ear, it drained into the brain and caused what is called a brain abscess. He also said “no one has ever lived through this”. Because of this, other doctors, etc. wanted to run tests on me to see how I survived it but he told them “No”. My parents had told me when I was two years old I had an ear infection and almost died. I told my doctor this and he was pretty certain this is when it happened. I feel I am very fortunate to come out of that with only epilepsy and it isn’t very bad at all. He tried me on many medications but all of those were just like drinking water also as for how they controlled my seizures. As time went on, I became highly sensitive to medications and I had to be taken off of seizure medication. But, this proved it wasn’t helping me because I couldn’t tell any difference in my seizure activity. My seizures stayed the same with or without medication. Now, as bad as I hate to admit my age, I’m 56 years old and age has improved my seizures! This started AFTER I went through menopause. Through the years, I had noticed my seizures seemed to be worse around that time of the month but who would have thought menopause would improve my seizures this much. If I had known this, I would have had my plumbing jerked out years ago after I had my children! As I stated in an earlier post, most of my seizures are very light now. In fact, I can have one now and even my husband doesn’t realize it! That’s very light when he doesn’t notice it especially with as much practice as he has had over the years. That’s my seizure history. I hope I haven’t been too “long winded”. I haven’t been called “motormouth” all these years for nothing. 
