“I was sitting at home. I remember having a headache but thought nothing of it. It wasn’t until my little sister noticed I wasn’t acting right and started shaking. She called 911 and I was rushed to the ER ,where they realized just how serious it was.”

This was written by a 20-year-old from Montana right after he was diagnosed with adult onset epilepsy.

“The seizure left the entire right side of my body paralyzed,” he said. “With weeks of recovery time, I slowly started to regain my strength back, now I am back to fully functioning and living a normal life. “I still battle ongoing seizures almost daily, but none have gotten to the point as they were in the beginning. It’s hard to hear the news that you have a disorder with almost no possible cure.”

Epilepsy is a chronic neurological condition which affects the nervous system. Epilepsy is also known as a seizure disorder and is often diagnosed after a person has two or more seizures that were not caused by a known medical condition.

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