Grand mals or petite mals?
By crazydaisy
@crazydaisy (3896)
Canada
August 19, 2008 8:26am CST
How long have you had it?
I was born with it.
I was told not to have any children, but I had one beautiful daughter, despite what they told me, due to severe grand mals. The doctors thought that if I were to have kids, it would end up in my death. Ha ha ha...I proved them wrong!
It just goes to show you, that they're not always right.
Nowadays, I have managed to cut down my seizures to almost nil.
Has any of you other women out there managed to do the same?
What have you done to keep yours under control, either big seizures or small.?
What medications are you taking?
crazydaisy
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@Dumpertaker (1187)
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10 Apr 10
I was diagnosed with petit and grand mal seizures when I was 15 (just before my exams, totally screwed things up for me) although I suffer more petit mal these days than grand mal.
My mom also has epilepsy, and she was told not to have kids, but she has had 6 of us!
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@crazydaisy (3896)
• Canada
10 Apr 10
I am very happy for your mother to have that many kids are you the only one with epilepsy are your brothers or sisters? have them...
cd
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@Dumpertaker (1187)
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11 Apr 10
Yup, just me.
It is thought that it is possbile that one of the immunization injections I had as a child could have caused it, as well as hitting some concrete steps forehead first when I was young.
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@JoyfulOne (6231)
• United States
25 Aug 08
I did not have seizures ever, but my best friend of 40+ years did. She had grand mal, and I remember when she was young that sirens and flashing lights used to set them off. She took phenobarbitol almost all her life, and I don't believe she took anything else for them. Once she was on a regular schedule of her medicines she never had ones after that. How wonderful that you had a lovely daughter despite being told otherwise. I'm so glad to hear that worked out well despite their predictions! (Thought I'd add to this discussion to bring it back to the top of the pile, it's a good discussion and I'm sure lots of people missed it :-)
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@Porcospino (31365)
• Denmark
23 Jun 10
I had grand mals when I was a child. It started when I was 9 years old, and at first my doctor didn't know if I had epilepsy or not, but I had some test done and after a while I got the diagnosis. He put me on medication, and it worked really well. I didn't get any seizures for a very long period of time. When I was 12 my doctor thought that I didn't need the medication any longer, so I quit. In the beginning I was a nervous if the seizures would come back, but they never did. Today I am 33 and I haven't had a seizure for more than 20 years.
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@crazydaisy (3896)
• Canada
23 Jun 10
I think that's Great that you have gone so long with out seizures I have gone 5yrs and hope that they don't come back,They say you can grow out of having them so lets hope we both do I wouldn't worry about them coming back because thats when they do!!!
BEST OF LUCK
I hope you don't have any more,
cd
@daceyp (327)
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10 Nov 08
i havent got it but my daughter has it due to haveing tuberous sclerosis.she has big small and vaccant ones.at the moment shes on tegretol.clabazam and midazolam.shes also on melatonin to help her sleep.we have tried nearly every med that is out there and havent found one yet.so we are looking at surgery so poss try and help her.
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