Epilepsy

Hi Alycia, From experience I have found that calling Epilepsy Action Aus. and chatting with them was a great way to find some helpful advice and info that can be used when visiting the dr/specialist/neurologist, Maybe this could be of help to your friend? http://www.epilepsy.org.au 🙂

I think my friend has already visited this site, I’ll ask her about it anyway

Hi Alycia, From experience I have found that calling Epilepsy Action Aus. and chatting with them was a great way to find some helpful advice and info that can be used when visiting the dr/specialist/neurologist, Maybe this could be of help to your friend? http://www.epilepsy.org.au 🙂

Hi, i would like to say sometimes medication makes things worste and depends on her age and other factors she might grow out of it. When i was in primary school i had epilepsy and I remember it was a awful time as kids would laugh at me because of it. I had numerous aappointments at the melbourne children’s hospital where the doctor’s would apply to my head those sticky round things with the wires attached to a machine to have some further awareness of my epilepsy. I never had any surgery or did any natural therapy to help my epilepsy go away. I did take medicine which i can not remember what it was more than 20 years ago. It was dangerous as i nearly got run over by a car due to a epileptic fit i had. Some how my epilepsy has disappeared without any explanation thank fully. I don’t talk about it and not many of my friends know, but my advice sometimes it’s better to let your body fight back and not pump in more medicine into our systems. I cant give further advice to your friend but if she has over pumped her body with too much medicine, yes sometimes it can defeat its purpose of working as good at the beginning. Hopefully your friend can overcome thism

I have epilepsy and have been lucky that 15 years ago they tried me on a couple of medications and we found one that works. Its what my doctor calls the old range of medications as they chance all the time. And with other drugs i take they are all from this range of so called older ingredients and these work well for me. The newer drugs do nothing. So I am lucky that i got one that has worked and still works. It just takes time to find the right one. And drugs can take up to 6 to 8 weeks to show if they work. Its not something that happens quickly. I wish you all the best.

Epilepsy is something that can affect each individual quite differently. It may take many years for a patient to find a medication and dosage that suits them, and even then the epilepsy may get worse over time. Some diets may help in reducing episodes, but all of that should be discussed with her specialist. I think you are better off just being a good support system for your friend, instead of focusing on ‘answers’ because that may never happen.

my friend has recently seen a specialist, the specialist said that the brain didn’t work like that. Could the specialist be wrong?

I would say that anything is possible Alycia, but the best person to ask about this would be a doctor, pharmacist or a specialist in the field of Epilepsy. I hope your friend is under good medical care.