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Gigi's QA
| 1 | Have you got Epilepsy? |
| Yes, I have Epilepsy | |
| 2 | When were you first diagnosed? |
| I was diagnosed aged about nine subsequent to 2 or 3 major szs at school. | |
| 3 | What type of Epilepsy do you have? |
| Generalised tonic-clonic. As a child, had quite a lot of absence seizures but this was not picked up until some years later when I got my official diagnosis. | |
| 4a | What medication do you currently take? |
| Since 1997 I have been on Lamotrigine (Lamictal), at the moment 350mg daily -- 200mg morning 150mg at night. This is doing an excellent job of keeping me under control. Unlike my husband. | |
| 4b | What other medication have you taken in the past to control your Epilepsy? |
| Now you're asking, hmm.. Zarontin with phenobarb, Phenytoin, sodium valproate (Epilim). I can't remember doses for the early ones but the Epilim ended up about 400mg a day --I think. They tried me on 1500 initially and I turned into a zombie couch potato! | |
| 5 | Any other info you want to share? |
| My younger brother also suffers from E which started in his teens. My mother is convinced we both started because of a bad reaction to our whooping cough jabs but there is no firm evidence of this. I have a child with a language/understanding disorder but there is no evidence either that this is connected with my meds or my condition. | |
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