jkj1995
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About 7 or 8 years ago I got really sick and went to numerous specialist trying to figure out what was wrong with me. I had a white blood cell count of 1.8 (normal is 4.0-10 I think) and had terrible joint pains. They tested me for everything imaginable and did 3 bone marrow biopsies over 2 years only to come up with chronic idiopathic neutropenia and a + scleroderma antibody. I had all the symptoms of RA but it didn't show up in the blood test. I have ALWAYS told all my doctors about my childhood epilepsy and that I took Dilantin, and I "outgrew" the epilepsy. What I'm trying to get at is they prescribed me Vioxx for the joint pain and I took it about 3 years. I still have the bottle with some pills in it. (I'm real bad about throwing things). I was reading that some of the major side effects of Vioxx were Seizures. Could this medicine have effected me and brought my seizures on. I have just put the 2 together. Do doctors not think about things like that? Some meds say "Do not take if you have or ever have had a seizure disorder". Just wondering. Thanks for any insight anyone might have.