Definitely don't turn down having an epilepsy nurse. I always go to my epilepsy nurse first with anything I'm worried about. Good luck and I hope your appointment goes well 💜💜💜

I have an epilepsy nurse,I live in the UK. It's so handy as I can email her about anything, I can call her, she's not always there but will call me back when she's not in an appointment. She can prescribe medication as well, she still double checks with neurologist but she can contact my doctor and sort out new meds. I wouldn't be without her. She's so nice and less scary to talk to, I always find my neurologist a bit intimidating and I don't date question what he says. With my epilepsy nurse I can be more open with her and ask any questions no matter how small. I hope your epilepsy nurse is as nice and helpful as mine.

@A MyEpilepsyTeam Member It depends on the medical system the ESN works in. Some of them are just epilepsy nurse assistants so there basically just a nurse that works in a EMU with the standard training they have, some hospitals will have Epilepsy Nurse practioners which are nurses that go on to do more specialised training in epilepsy that takes along time to complete. The training is pretty complex and very medical based. Alot of people have people said it's basically like studying to be a Dr without becoming a Dr.

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Thanks sooo much ❤️❤️

@A MyEpilepsyTeam Member Yep. alot of the good nurse practitioners that specialise in a area will choose a area then they tend to work there for a long time say 6 years + It's not till after that they would decide to go on and do the further study. They have to make sure wherever they work will back them as a ESN. I think all up the ESN I was seeing it took them almost 15 years when you take in to account the work they did as a nurse + the study.

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