Richard Leslie
November 8th, 2007
I started suffering from epilepsy in 1991. A seizure is a sudden, excessive discharge of nervous system electrical activity that usually causes a change in behavior.At the time I starting having seizures, I was a union electrician. I had a good life, a good job and was not prepared for the life change that would occur with having epilepsy. I learned that a person with three or more recurring seizures is said to have epilepsy.When I first started having seizures, I found a great neurologist who began studying my seizures and worked to determine why I was having them. Unfortunately, the reasons I started having seizures is still unknown. However, what my doctors did know is that there were medicines available to help regain the quality of life I had known before the onset of my epilepsy. (more…)
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