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Epilepsy questions..

The TVClubHouse: General Discussions ARCHIVES: 2005 Dec. ~ 2006 Feb.: Health Center: Epilepsy questions.. users admin

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Nancy
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08-01-2000

Friday, October 21, 2005 - 6:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nancy a private message Print Post    
Does anyone here have epilepsy and/or know someone with it?

My sister was diagosed at age 5 with epilepsy. at that time she was having petit mal seizures. She is now 50 plus yrs old.

About 15 yrs ago she had her very first full-blown seizure(had stopped her meds)..she's been on the same med now for 15 yrs--recently she's had what she called 'deja vu' seizures--where she's lost track of time (not a grand mal i think probably more like her petite mals of eons ago..)

anyway, any thoughts? is this a harbinger of a full-blown grand mal to come?

she's got a neurologist appt for in 2 weeks. but i'd hate something to happen in the mean time to where she'd loose her driver's license!

Lyn
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08-07-2002

Saturday, October 22, 2005 - 11:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lyn a private message Print Post    
My six year old granddaughter was recently diagnosed with epilepsy but I'm afraid I don't much about it just as yet. Maria tends to zone out during hers and, luckily, has only had a couple of full blown convulsive episodes