Again, your meds can cause some extreme side affects even memory loss. Talk to your doctor. Depakote is the worst!

Stephanie, mine are called Absence Seizures. I can not know where I am, be extremely confused. Dorothy would know if I were going to have one by what my face and eyes looked like. I have to be near a bathroom. For some reason going helps lessen the seizure if it was minor. A major one could require my sleeping for 3 hours or so.
Lack of enough good sleep, not eating well or enough, and being overheated are all triggers. If I avoid them, they can be avoided. I am doing fairly well, however.
I have never been good with names, but do reconize faces.

Leslie

Memory issues only one of our big struggles, when it comes to Epilepsy and the meds we’re on.

I do not have a good memory at all. I don’t remember much about my past either, have You ever looked at pictures to remind yourself of the past? One thing that really annoys me is after graduating from college where I wrote a papers that are 20+ pages long and can’t remember a word of what I wrote. I looked at them a year after graduating. I don’t expect to remember those things after a long period of time. But these papers have high grades on them, I have to ask myself “did I really write this?” It is very difficult to live and learn without having a good memory sometimes.

My not knowing where I am is a problem. When I walked to the store on a major street, I would be very confused. Having a seizure in the middle of the street is very dangerous! I do not leave where I live without someone else driving. Now I can shop, get to the bank or do other errands. The Neurologists find that when given four words to remember until the end, maybe I might remember one. Otherwise, I need a hint.

Leslie