will we always have seizures? - Epilepsy Message Board

violarose · 06-14-2003, 12:57 AM

have you heard of anybody having seizures, and then not to have them anymore? Is having seizures going to affect the rest of my life? I got my seizures after having viral menigites

mommajessibelle · 06-14-2003, 07:52 AM

i was diagnosed with epilepsy on jan 8 1997 i was 15 years old and for no reason at all i started having grandmal seizures still to this day (now im 22)despite all the many of aed's ive been on my seizures are stil uncontrolled this is something i have been told i willhave for the rest of my unless 1)they by some amazing chance they find a cure for epilepsy or 2)im a brain surgery candidate and the surgery actually works. im going through all the testing for that right now but im not really looking to hopeful on either one right now

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Usha · 06-15-2003, 11:56 AM

I also had seizures and my neuroloog told my i had epilepsy and i had to take a lot of pills.
Then 7 Years later i found out i wasn't an epileptic but i was allergic to wheat!!!!
I took those pills and i got fat for nothing!

Maybe this isn't the case for you but i read a lot and i found out that some foods can make it worse.

Maybe you can find out if or what kind of food has a bad effect on you.

Greetings from an angry ex-epileptic

Karla · 06-15-2003, 12:46 PM

My son had seizures due to bacterial menigitis. It left blood clots on his brain. Once the blood clots disolved after about 5 years he was taken off seizure meds and has been seizure free since 1988.

I used to have grand mals and complex partial seizures. About 30 small ones a day. I was allergic to almost everything on the market at the time for seizure preventatives so I just suffered through the seizures. Then one day in 1993 I just quit having seizures for some reason. I had had seizures for 28 years then all of a sudden they just quit and I haven't had any in over 10 years now. I am on no meds.