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Smilesalot's
QA
Hello, my name is Samantha (Sam)
| 1 | Have you got Epilepsy? |
| I have non-epileptic seizures and temporal lobe epilepsy | |
| 2 | When were you first diagnosed? |
| I was diagnosed on 1/23/01. | |
| 3 | What type of Epilepsy do you have? |
| I have grand mal seizures | |
| 4 | What medication do you currently take? |
| I am currently taking neurontin 1800mg daily, zoloft 75mg, and ativan .5mg (decreased from 4 mg, woo-hoo!) I first started with tegretol when I had my seizures, it had horrible side effects and my neurologist at the time kept increasing the med. as my seizures increased to 10 per day until finally I was on the highest dose and my neurologist threw her hands up in the air and sent me for a sleep deprived eeg, since then I've been on the neurontin which has hardly any side effects for me except drowsiness. | |
| 5 | Any other info you want to share? |
| When I was first diagnosed, I had to have 2 eeg's with those flashing lights, and that totally set me off into a seizure with an extreme headache. When I was coming home from the hospital after my sleep deprived eeg, I had to wear sunglasses, a hat, and sometimes a blanket over my head constantly because the light bothered me so much I would go into a seizure. I couldn't watch TV, the curtains had to be closed so that my place of dwelling looked like a cave. It took like 6 months for me to slowly introduce myself more and more to light through therapy. Even now, certain kinds of light still bother me. I thought I was the only one who had this, I felt like such a loner! |