Hi everyone, recently diagnosed with Epilepsy

I don't see a lot of replies in this forum, so no offense if no one answers. I very recently was diagnosed with petit mal seizures (last Tuesday). To tell you the truth, I didn't believe it, but upon talking to my friends at work, I'm more convinced that it may be true. Three different people told me, upon me telling them my diagnosis, that I blank out in the middle of a sentence,  and just stare, only to pick up and continue like nothing happened. Of course I don't know what they heck they're talking about, lol. I actually went to a neuropsychiatrist, for my Bipolar, and upon his examining my info, and MRI's and such, had come to the conclusion that I had epilepsy. He is treating my Bipolar with Depakote, and hoping to help a lot of things, aka: Migraines, Insomnia, Epilepsy, ect, with it.

Anyhow, that's my medical "Me", nice to meet you all.

John

[dollyn]

welcome.

They should do a EEG to test on you.and check your blood levels.

They should also check your levels of the Depakote and your liver levels every 6 months.

The medicine may work and may not and they may have to try may different kind of seizure medicines.

Seizures can also cause you to be very sleepy and to forget things.

There is a lot of info online about seizures and utube has videos .

there is a website called talk about it .

[cogarcia]

welcome to are world I'm 32 and have had uncontrol gran mal seizures all my life I fall to the floor and shake like a fish out of water i chew my tough until it bleeds if i'm lucky it stops with in two to three minutes. I take Keppra,lamictal,and dilantin 3 times a day for a total of 12 pills three times aday. Listen to your coworkes and dr their help on what you do while you are in a seizure will help your dr to treat you better

[zonegranholiday]

Nice to meet you.  Your seizures sound very similar to what I had as a kid growing up but most of the time nobody noticed it was happening (with the exception of myself and my mom). I usually had auras occur with my seizures before it happened so I knew it was coming on before it occurred.  Over the years though, my seizures have gotten progressively worse. It went from being mostly petit mal seizures for the first 20 years of my life and then changed to being stronger petit mal seizures and grand mal seizures for the next 23 years on a regular basis. My seizures have never been successfully controlled by any drug i've taken.  I've been trying to find the underlying cause to them besides having been vaccinated way too soon in life.  I recently found out i have heavy metal toxicity which i'm working on removing.  Now i'm going to get tested for food allergies to see if there could be any possible seizure triggers there.  Since I've discovered that food allergies can cause things from seizures to schizophrenia, that's my latest investigation into what might be worsening things for the past 23 years.

Hope you find something that helps control your seizures. Good luck to you.

[trish934]

hi there!
well if three of your friend stood witness to this then maybe it did happened, However pray about since it sad to know it just adds on to the list of "medical" complications you mentioned. Living with epilepsy is not a nice thing trust me...!
I also want you to have a look at this 8 or 10 part series on youtube. Part 1 begins with "understanding epilepsy" with Robert S. Fisher M.D.,Ph.D check it out it really helps you understand epilepsy...helped me.