if tramadol is a "no no" med for people with epilepsy, i'm guessing that it lowered your "seizure threshold." (that is, it made you more susceptible to having one).



you didn't say how old you are or how long it was before 1997 that you'd had your 2nd to the last seizure. Have you had a time in your life that you had seizures frequently or have you only had a few in your lifetime?

The fact that you were able to go 6 or 7 years w/o any medications and be seizure free is definitely promising. Hopefully, this was a freak side effect of the med. I guess I would say that the epilepsy hasn't totally "gone away," as you put it, but it sounds like it doesn't visit very often.

Wishing you well.

A.I.W.L.

Sorry i’m 26 years (born in 1977) started having seizures at age 6 was on tegretol for 2 years with no further seizures then came of meds so would have been about 8 years old then. I then had no meds or seizures from then until I was 14 (1992) when I started having seizures again. I was put back onto tegretol. I can’t remember how long I was on it for probably a year or so. Around that time I probably had about 3-4 seizures then nothing. So between age roughly 15 – 19 I had no seizures then in 1997 started having them again and went on epilim for a while. And now i’m not on meds and haven’t had any apart from that one a few weeks ago. So it seems I have some sort of pattern of having a few then going years without anything then having a few again then having another break…

Hi, I had epilepsy when i was a teenager. i havent had a siezure for 12 years. I was prescribed Tramadol last year as a pain killer and it had NO effect on me seizure wise.

If i was you i would make an appointment with ur gp again, and get it checked out.

hope all goes well