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Q: Help!! Very Confused

asked by: Sylvia on October 20th, 2003

New User

Hi,
i have just been diagnosed with epilepsy. I'm twenty five and it just seems that this came from no-where, no accident , does not run in family!! Nothing ...

I'm finding this very frustating, I have attacks/siezures only when i'm asleep starts and ends with a migrane headache (which I have been having for ever)

i'm feel like i'm not coping , my attacks have increased to daily , i'm on medication but it doesn't seem to help, I am depressed alot and anrgy. I have spoken to my doctor but all she reverts to is more medication and thinks I should relax..

Please help I am very confused Shocked

Replies(2)

AdamsMom

replied on October 28th, 2003

New User

Sylvia

My son has had epilepsy for 8 years.
Fortunely we got a good doctor to start out.
Now im not so sure about this last one.

I would if you can get a second opinion.
Go to another doctor and see if they conclude the same thing.
I have a friend whose daughter has been a epieptic all her life she is now 13 ,they put her on a kenectic diet and it helped greatly with her seizures.
Ask you doctor about this also .
Good luck and
god bless
adams mom

phil dennison

replied on November 16th, 2003

Experienced User

I was 32 and we sound the same.What is happening a part of the brain is very slowly dying.But I knew there was something wrong my whole life.I call it the loss of life.I had brain surgey 3 years later.I'm great!What they do is cut a hole in the skull the size of a half-dollar.Take out a part of the brain the size of a pinky finger.Since your brain is slowly dying you could have the surgery today,and feel more stupid or year after year get only a little bit stupider each year,and then years later,have the surgery and feel the same like I do.

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