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Living With Epilepsy: Your Guide
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Internal Body Clocks May Affect Timing of Epileptic Seizures
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Getting Started on MyEpilepsyTeam
Tell your story, find your people, share and receive
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Severe Epilepsy Topic Center
Learn about types of severe epilepsy
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Your Guide to Epilepsy: Symptoms, Treatments, and More
Your Guide to Epilepsy: Symptoms, Treatments, and More
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Your Guide to Rescue Therapy for Seizures
Learn about rescue therapy for seizures.
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Focal Seizures Topic Center
Focal Seizures: Types and Treatments
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Recent articles
You to the Rescue! Giving Rescue Medicine for Seizure First Aid
If you or a loved one has epilepsy, knowing seizure first aid can help prevent complications and...
Seizures and Epilepsy in Children: A Parent’s Guide
Epilepsy is a neurological condition of the nervous system marked by repeated seizures. A seizure...
Managing Urinary Incontinence and Seizures
Nearly 40 percent of people with epilepsy experience at least one urinary symptom, researchers...
Living With Epilepsy: Your Guide
Life with epilepsy can present a variety of challenges, but people diagnosed with epilepsy can...
Hiding Epilepsy vs. Disclosing: How and When Do You Tell Others?
Whether you are newly diagnosed with epilepsy or have been living with epilepsy for some time,...
What Are Generalized Seizures?
Generalized seizures are a type of epilepsy that affects up to 40 percent of people with...
What Are Metabolic Disorders, and How Can They Cause Epilepsy?
Metabolism is the chemical reaction in the body’s cells that changes food into energy. It’s a...
What You May Not Know About Abdominal Epilepsy
Abdominal epilepsy is a very rare type of temporal lobe epilepsy. This form of epilepsy is most...
Bone Density and Epilepsy: Are Antiepileptic Drugs a Risk for Osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis is a medical condition in which bones lose density, becoming weak and brittle. This...
Stopping Seizures: Your Rescue Treatment Options
A person can use seizure rescue treatments in addition to their regular antiepileptic drugs...
