alpacasqueak
Forum Donator 2022/23
Been thinking for ages about starting a little thread asking, but as above?!
Not sure if I’m the only forum member that’s a sufferer from epilepsy? Talk about it all the time on here of course, not ashamed at all, but just my curiosity and would be lovely to know it’s not just me!
(In case people don’t know) I was hit by a car when I was 13, my head went through the windscreen and I broke my right arm in three places, burst my right eardrum and was in hospital for a week. Off school for six weeks, the worst thing at that age was my mum having to help me in the bath!
Thankfully ear and arm healed sort of ok. But I started having what I now know are ‘partial’ or ‘complex partial’ seizures. I’d had depression and anxiety after that so we thought it was that really. And a big white spot on my frontal lobe (in my brain) that I got scanned every 6 month for years. (I refused surgery about 8 years ago, couldn’t leave my beasts and everything else!)
At about 16/17 I started having fits and finally got diagnosed with it at 18 and started on meds. Since then it’s up and down, I have a great year then a bad one, but annoying with it being damage to my brain it’s a bit out of control at times! Even with meds!
So yup, it’s hard at times but if I make a joke on here about it I do mean it, feel free to laugh everyone! It’s hard but it’s been me for years now, got to at least get a chuckle about it!
Not sure if I’m the only forum member that’s a sufferer from epilepsy? Talk about it all the time on here of course, not ashamed at all, but just my curiosity and would be lovely to know it’s not just me!
(In case people don’t know) I was hit by a car when I was 13, my head went through the windscreen and I broke my right arm in three places, burst my right eardrum and was in hospital for a week. Off school for six weeks, the worst thing at that age was my mum having to help me in the bath!
Thankfully ear and arm healed sort of ok. But I started having what I now know are ‘partial’ or ‘complex partial’ seizures. I’d had depression and anxiety after that so we thought it was that really. And a big white spot on my frontal lobe (in my brain) that I got scanned every 6 month for years. (I refused surgery about 8 years ago, couldn’t leave my beasts and everything else!)
At about 16/17 I started having fits and finally got diagnosed with it at 18 and started on meds. Since then it’s up and down, I have a great year then a bad one, but annoying with it being damage to my brain it’s a bit out of control at times! Even with meds!
So yup, it’s hard at times but if I make a joke on here about it I do mean it, feel free to laugh everyone! It’s hard but it’s been me for years now, got to at least get a chuckle about it!