I went through epilepsy from the time I was 8 until 17. After trying every type of seizure medicine, doing many tests, and keeping track of the pattern, the only thing left to look into was brain surgery. After my brain surgery, it was not expected to have memory loss. I went from a junior […]

Q: Tell us a bit about yourself and your epilepsy. A: I had my first seizure in Vietnam when I was about 4 years old. Nothing severe happened to me I was diagnosed with epilepsy. I had had epilepsy for 35 + years. To be more specific, I was diagnosed with partial complex seizures, which […]

There is hope. I lived without it for two decades until an unforseen turn of events gave me the chance to maybe live without the complex partial seizures that had been ruling my life since mid adolescence. My seizures were intractable. I couldn’t take many medications because I was allergic to them. Finally we found […]

My daughter Sarah was exactly 5 months old when she had her first seizure, thankfully we were in the emergency room at the time. I have never been so terrified in my whole life. It appeared to be febrile because she had an infection. but they continued to come. She would go months in between […]

My story is about being a survivor. At the age of two I was adopted making no information available of when or how my epilepsy got started. Through various tests done over the years, including x-rays, it appears that I had a head injury as an infant. My journey has not always been an easy […]

I am 25 years old and didn’t realize that I have been having different types of seizures for the majority of my life. As a child I had a febrile seizure, heat stroke and suffered from migraines for my adolescent years, however I never went to a doctor and kept a lot to myself. Fathers […]