My name is Chelsea. I’m 23 years old & a full time worker at a nursing home. I was born with epilepsy & diagnosed by the age of 4. Ive been going to Stanford hospital since I was a child. I’ve had the VNS surgery when I was 11 years old in the year 2001. […]

My name is Meredith, I’m 27 living in SF working in retail ecommerce. I was diagnosed at the age of 5 with epilepsy, following several episodes generally in the morning hours. The most notible was a grand mal I had at school; I couldn’t remember where my classroom was, I remember crying, feeling scared and […]

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 […]