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you know you have epilepsy if...
you don't believe anyone who tells you you have epilepsy
...you feel at some point everything you do is a trigger
...you feel at some point that everything you experience is a seizure
...you feel at some point that epilepsy doesn't exist, and that in fact it is something someone is doing TO you
...you know it is something you do to yourself - and since everything can be a trigger, everything in life is evil
...you don't feel anything at all anymore
...you don't give a **** anymore
...the best thing you've gotten from epilepsy is CWE friends
...you feel it's a medical community conspiracy because you haven't shown up on an EEG, and that they're out to get you
and then of course
...you feel at some point like you've been run over by a truck, and everyone swears nothing happened, they say it was "another seizure" - but you know there's no way that can happen, because it has never shown up on an EEG, so it simply confirms your suspicions that it is something someone is doing TO you
...then you just don't care anymore because you know you're too insignificant for such a conspiracy to take place
...then you just don't care anymore because you realize you don't matter at all anymore, not even to God
 
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You know you have E when you try to find the light switch on the opposite wall from where it's been your entire life
You know you have E when you try to set the house alarm with your keys.
 
petero said:
...you feel it's a medical community conspiracy because you haven't shown up on an EEG, and that they're out to get you
...then you just don't care anymore because you know you're too insignificant for such a conspiracy to take place
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I knew it... I'm not just paranoid... they really are out to get me... B*&%^(ds!!

petero said:
...you don't give a **** anymore
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Some days...

:ponder:
 
you wonder if you'll have epilepsy in heaven, or in hell if you kill yourself
and realize you're already in hell and wonder why I did kill myself in previous life
 
You know you have Epilepsy when you wake up with a dislocated thumb thinking "I would have felt that pain like hell yesterday."

:ponder:

Nothing like a nocturnal seizure.

Thumb down but thank God for splints...
 
If someone can convince you that it's okay to put forks in the microwave.... gotta love your brother <3 :P
 
When you start viewing floors differently when seeing homes or work places for the first time. Carpet? Score. Cold ceramic tile? Boo...but easier to clean up drool I guess. Laminate...a little better than ceramic. Less cold and the impact is somehow less dreadful.
Do all the stairs have railings? Bungalow with no stairs? Alright!
 
When you can ask the sales associate at Target for rubber sheets and keep a straight face ;)

(then when you can check out at the register/unload your loot with a roommate watching without blushing)
 
you know you have epilepsy when a doctor tells you you've had two tonic-clonic seizures observed by someone else while you were having the seizures and the doctor diagnoses you with epilepsy
 
seizurrific said:
When you can ask the sales associate at Target for rubber sheets and keep a straight face ;)

(then when you can check out at the register/unload your loot with a roommate watching without blushing)
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if you have to do that again, you could go to the hardware area and buy a paintbrush too and while at the checkout keep talking with your roommate about "well remember the last time I used one of those tarps the stupid thing tore and I'm not getting the room recarpeted again because you want the window frames a new color too now" yadda yadda yadda

painting tarp... or oil change in the garage... or dying your hair while watching the NHL playoffs in the living room, or as an artist myself "performance art" is a nice all-enveloping term
 
You know you have epilepsy when...

1- You misplace an item and you first look in the fridge, then inside the microwave oven then the trash bin and lastly, the dumpster outside.

2- You use your wife's cell phone to call your cell phone and the fridge rings.

3- When the local ER orders IV Lorazipam and Dilantin by the gallon.

4- When the smoke detector goes off, you know that the dinner you put in the oven is pure carbon and you give up and you order pizza.
 
When you tell your mother you can't find your glasses and she immediately asks if you've checked the fridge YET.
 
A couple of things I actually didn't think of until I read this forum (but my mom even commented on when I told her about it!)

1) After your family members insist they aren't moving things around, you begin to suspect you have a "special friend" moving things around the house because CLEARLY you aren't. I mean... why else would the fork be in the clothing drawer?

2) You can't remember where you live... Story: I COULD NOT open the door to my apartment, no matter how hard I tried. I'm close to tears at this point (because I'm just put on Keppra) and frustrated that I can't get my door open, and someone opens the door and asks if I'm okay... I was in the wrong building.

3) You wander around the same area in Wal-Mart (or in any store) in circles and still can't remember what you're trying to buy. And are mostly unaware of the fact you've just passed the same section five times. Other people think you're drunk...
 
Loopy Lou said:

When my mum woke me up for work as i'd turned my alarm off in my sleep again, i leapt out of bed saying "aw crap we'd better go - we were supposed to pick granny up to go shopping an hour ago!" This being at half six in the morning, when my granny was over at home in Ireland (I'm in England)
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I am ALWAYS turning off my alarms while sleeping.:roflmao: While I was in school it would make my mom soo mad. At one point she had to start hiding two or three alarms around my room, so I didn't know where they were. :rolleyes:
 
You know you have epilepsy when... you wake up one morning, not knowing what your alarm clock is, why it's yelling at you, or how to make it stop making noise. My solution was to throw it against the wall. And go back to sleep.
 
everything is repeating intentionally because it is out to get you just like it got you to have seizures
 
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