Hi everyone,

i've just registered to get more information from people with similar situations. I'm a 31 year old male and at age 12 I had an avm, which require brain surgery and left me paralyzed on the left side. It also left me with epilepsy, although I only ever had two seizures (one during the surgery and one when the doctors started to lower my meds. I had been seizure free for 18 years on 300mg dilantin up until this past spring when I had a grand mal seizure in march. I immediately had a ct scan and an eeg. The results showed nothing more than the scar tissure that had been there since the avm. My meds were changed and they introduced epival, whi I had to take with dilantin. A few weeks following the grand mal seizure I started having focal seizures in my left arm and in my spine. I was told this was due to the new medication and finding the "right mix". I went as far as 2 or three weeks seizure free before I would have the odd one here and there and my blood tests showed that I was just on the edge of the therapeutic range for the epival. My dilantin and epival finally were within the range, and I was finally feeling good again, but over the past week I have started to have the focal seizures on an almost daily basis.

Has anyone experienced similar patterns with this?

It has been an unusually hot summer up here in vancouver and I wonder if heat can have an impact on this. I'm sure dehydration can, but I drink a ton of water.