Before you read this and assume you or someone you know as epilepsy, please please note that this condition varies from person to person and can only be properly diagnosed by a doctor. This is my personal experience of epilepsy. I am a 22 year old woman and was only diagnosed last year at the age of 21 that I had this condition. I had suffered for ten years prior to this of severe migraines and was always off school and attending regular tests etc at the doctors as the severity grew. I was given tablets to stop the pain but nothing ever seemed to stop the actual migraine from occuring. Last year, one Monday morning in December, I got up for work as ...  Read the complete review

Waking up crashed out on the kitchen floor with a horrible taste in my mouth and a pounding headache, you would be forgiven for thinking I had over-indulged on alcohol, but instead I was just fifteen and had suffered an epileptic seizure for the first time. My parents were divorced and I was staying with my dad, and the last thing I remember before waking up, is getting a bowl of fruit and sitting down to watch a silly gameshow. After that I woke up, but in between my dad said I had walked into the kitchen and he ran in, having heard an allmighty crash, to see me convulsing on the floor. Although it was scary for him, I think his mind immediately ...  Read the complete review

Epilepsy is something that anybody could suffer from during their life, this piece is just my life living with the condition. My experiences should be treated as such, how the condition affects me. We are not supposed to give advise on how this affects others, because everybody who has this compliant is affected differently. My History I was fourteen in 1968 and very active in sports mainly swimming. I swam every week night. However, one lunchtime I was looking in a shoeshop window and had what I can only describe as an aura, it felt as if my head was being forced to look over my left shoulder. I found out later that your head doesn't ...  Read the complete review

Epilepsy. The very word still carries a stigma and can create fear. For anyone that has witnessed an epileptic seizure (I think that is a much better word than "fit"), you will know that it can be quite scary. As a teenager at school I had a close friend who suffered from major seizures quite frequently. At first it was terrifying but you soon learn how to cope and not to be overwhelmed by it. I nearly said, "frightened" but that rather gives the wrong impression. The one thing that never failed to sadden me was the reaction of Joe Public if it happened when we were out and about. I suppose it is ignorance. That was a long time ago and I ...  Read the complete review

Um… there's a rather graphic description just following, so be warned. Bear with me though, it turns out alright in the end. A long, long time ago I was living with a man called Mark. It was one of those nice, peaceful relationships; I don't think we ever exchanged a single cross word in the two or three years our relationship lasted. Mark was, and is, a nice man. We even worked together, in fact that's how we'd met. One day we were sitting in the staffroom eating lunch. I was reading and Mark was chatting and laughing with everyone else when suddenly he leapt to his feet. The chair scraped backwards and fell over and the noise made me ...  Read the complete review