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Some doc. may call them seizures & some may call them episodes I don't know why to me they are a problem that I deal with everyday of my life...... but I'm seizure free knock on wood .......but I⦠read more
She has had this for 4 weeks already. Giving Guaifesin and not doing much. She has a vaporizer and take cetirizine daily.
Talk to your doctor first about using any cold/flu medication. There are some that will increase seizure frequency depending on your type of seizures and your seizure medications.
98% of my seizures happen during my REM sleep usually after 3am or later in the morning. I'm pretty much on a two week cycle. I have been on numerous AEDs and nothing seems to break the cycle. Was wondering if anyone has these types of seizures and have they found a treatment that has help reduce these type of seizure activity?
I was told I needed more sleep because the REM cycle being skipped during my night seizures.
I seem to have different types of epilepsy? Is that possible or am I not remembering them accurately?
Yes it is possible to have more than one type of epilepsy
Is it true that people with any of the types of seizures shouldn't drive? I totally understand why I shouldn't (I experience tonic-clonic seizures), but what about those with the other types?
Some states
Periodic medical updates are required each year until seizure free for 3 years.
AND
KENTUCKY 90 days
Ty so very much I will share with my drs π€
Hang in there and try and stay pos,
Want to get gradually shift, with the consent of my neurologist, from alophatic to herbal medicines, what's thought of my team.
I am not trying to shift to CBD and completely stop AEDs but gradually, if my neurologist agrees, otherwise no need to change AEDs.
Thanks for everyone's positive feedback.
This is a clip from an article in today's Boston Herald: "Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a miniature needle as thin as a strand of hair that can deliver medicine to specific areas of the brain and provide better treatment options to people with neurological conditions like epilepsy and schizophrenia.
βThe whole idea here is that instead of treating the entire brain, you can treat small portions of the brain,β MIT engineering professor Michael Cima said. βRightβ¦ read more
I didn't see that. Thanks for sharing!
Having been epileptic all my life and seeing multiple name changes to seizure types why is it important to learn the new name changes of seizure types which will be obsolete in years to come probably?
I agree with the post here, but me having my condition, it doesn't really bother me what they name it or call it etc, I'm not gonna let it get to me,