Testimonies: Living with epilepsy 22 Articles

by Kelley Quinn

I'm going to begin by asking you to stretch out your arm at full length and tighten the muscles as hard as you possibly can. Do you see your arm begin to shake? Now imagine every muscle in your body contracting at the exa...read more

by MarySunshine

I have lived with epilepsy for 25 years - basically all of my adult life. I could go into great detail of how it began, all the medications, and the peaks and valleys I encountered on this journey. But anyone who has epil...read more

by Jennifer Wader

On March 9, 1998, the day after my 32nd birthday, I became the happiest person in the world. I found out I was pregnant and due in November. I gave birth to a healthy, happy, 9 pound 2 ounce baby boy, on November 18, 1998,...read more

by Sebastien Elliot

At first having epilepsy seemed like a relatively minor thing to deal with. I had one seizure when I was 23. It scared my girlfriend half to death, but after a multitude of tests I was told that it easily could be controll...read more

by written silence

Living with a seizure disorder Disabled, but not unable "Good morning mom", I say as I head for the kitchen beginning my daily get ready for school routine. As an active 15 year old I am a hyper little girl, below ave...read more

by Margaret Merrill

Imagine waking up, not knowing where you are, who you are, and totally unable to speak because your tongue is butchered, bitten all the way through on both sides. You can't think straight enough to even recognize your own...read more

by Liane Laskoske

Epilepsy rules your life. Even if it's controlled by medications, it never goes away. I personally don't have it, but my husband does. When I met him, I had only heard about the disorder. He was in a group of friends t...read more

by Marian Huyck Grossi

THUNDERING HORSES AND TORNADOES *I have epilepsy and am implanted with a small computer called a Cyberonics Vegus Nerve Stimulator (VNS). Between it sending impulses to my brain every 5 minutes and quite a colorful arr...read more

by Rudy Ebmer

In the summer of 1974 at the age nine I had a heat stroke.I was rushed to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor by way of ambulance where I lay in the Emergency room in a coma. The Neurologists tried feverishly to wake m...read more

by Jeremy Orbell

I have petit mal which is like a mild form of epilepsy. The best way I can describe this to you is to imagine you are watching a film and the editor has cut out 3-4 seconds so there's a piece of the action missing. In o...read more

by Carol Wood

Epilepsy needn't rule your life! I was first diagnosed with epilepsy just over ten years ago when I was in my thirties. Fortunately for me, my seizures, although always the grand mal attacks, are nocturnal seizures. Of ...read more

by Dimpel Patel

Epilepsy: My Personal Story It was June 15th, 2007. I was sitting at the breakfast bar with my mom eating breakfast. She was clipping her coupons while I was eating my cereal. It was the weekend of Father's Day and my d...read more

by Kelly Canada

I have been living with Epilepsy for 15 years now. I've pretty much had a good hold on controlling my seizures. Up until recently anyways. I got bronchits real bad about two months ago and since then I have been experie...read more

by Author Stacey Chillemi

I got epilepsy at the age of five. I had contracted a sore throat and an ear infection. My mother had brought me to the doctor's office that evening and the pediatrician had put me on penicillin and told my mother to ha...read more

by Nick Griffiths

Epilepsy is one of the most common medical conditions in the world, people who have this condition suffer from seizures these vary from person to person and are caused by electrical pulses in the brain. Some people underg...read more

by Jane Field

Hello and welcome to my thoughts As a woman who struggles with brief intermissions of the seizure kind, life is never dull. Although I constantly "pop out" of conversations nd rooms I return and continue and friends now...read more

by Sasha Peat-Hanna

What is epilepsy? It can be as simple as an arm spasm you get every once and awhile that you just call "a little tick!" It can be as major as "blanking out" and loosing track of time and or not knowing what is happening...read more

by stephchristine

Epilepsy is a serious disease that affects millions of Americans of all ages and races, and many millions more all over the world. Symptoms include, but are not limited to, seizures, convulsions, and staring spells which c...read more

by mom of three

I am not the one living with epilepsy, but my son is. He is 7 years old and was diagnosed with epilepsy when he was 4 years old. although he has been having seizures since he was only a year old. At first our family doct...read more

by Shaun T. Koh

After 12 seizures in an hour, Taylor, our 7-year-old greyhound, breathed his last. It wasn't totally unexpected that such a day would come. But it still came as a shock. He had seizures regularly, usually when everyone ...read more