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As Aging Comes About, Has Anyone Experienced Their Seizures Change For Better Or For Worse Also?
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As a child and through school years, my seizures went by and in an hour or so I was back on track, as entered adulthood seizures primarily strike at night and keep me down for upto 2 days with auras that seizures don't always come through. However here within the last 2 years or so everytime my seizures strike (still at night) I fall. Sometimes off the bed, or walking in the midst of the seizure.

posted September 2, 2020
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I've been dealing with the negative side effects of (too many!) medications for 50 years now. It really has been such a battle!! I've also had 2 brain surgeries. I'm so grateful that I no longer lose bladder control! As I have aged, seizure frequency has increased. That's why I work part-time, and don't overtax myself physically.... otherwise I pay for it!! Do you take any good vitamins & electrolytes (especially during the summer)??

posted September 7, 2020
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For me my seizures went worse to better. That only because of my brain 🧠 surgery I had in 1998. It reduced my seizure frequency and I don’t seizure as much at night , like I use to. I may seizure occasionally during sleep. Most of the time it’s in the day.

posted September 4, 2020
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

Mine went from just staring spells In my youth, to sleep seizures in my 20s-30s to full blown thrashing on the floor in my 40s. Yeah, so worse as I age.

posted September 3, 2020
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

No I've never tried anything like that. Docs have never even commented use of that stuff.

posted September 7, 2020
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

I can say mine got worse with age. Most of my strong seizures came in the second half of my experience.

posted September 3, 2020

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