The Epilepsy...

Now onto how I feal about "the illness" ...

The Epilepsy doesn't affect my day to day life. I occasionally get major seizures even though the medication controls the fitting. Up until about 2-3 years ago I really resented my condition and the sesiures and was very bad at taking my medication. But after a series of bad fits I was convinced by both my family and my partner to take my condition a bit more seriously that I had been.

I still resent the ilness to a certain extent because of the time it steals from my life, but I have learnt, in my own way, to deal with it ... The time is lost when I black out with a fit, to describe it is difficult ... initially I'm awake and carrying on with the task at hand, then the next thing I remember it is between 30mins and 2 hours later and I'm vaguely concious and coherent, and able to move a little. Then I sleep off the shock to the system which can be anything from 4 - 10 hours. So, intotal I effectively loose on average 8 hours from a day when I have a fit.