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Lyrica—You’re Out! Such a pretty, melodic word, Lyrica. Sounds so—hmmm—harmonious and upbeat. When Michael’s neurologist suggested we try a course of it ...I have to say I readily agreed. He was all for it, too, as the promise of getting rid of the lengthy early a.m. seizures ... was simply too great to resist..» Read More

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DREAM

Posted by Michelle Bohning on February 8, 2010 at 11:47pm

Stop the Stigma

Posted by MrsLinkgetter on February 8, 2010 at 11:27pm — 1 Comment

Been Missing out

Posted by Raquel Ruiz on February 8, 2010 at 6:44pm

Its important to find the right doctor

Posted by Kelly Grogan on February 8, 2010 at 4:30pm

What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?

Posted by Isky (RyAnne Fultz) on February 8, 2010 at 12:19am — 2 Comments

Latest Activity

Sammie Rae commented on morgan's blog post 'Phish and the ER'

Always carries extra meds with you. I never leave the house without them. if u don't carry a purse start just for the pills. that's what i did it's a life saver

1 minute ago

Sammie Rae commented on morgan's blog post 'PARTY TIME'

Honestly I think it depends on the meds and drugs, I smoked weed on one medication and was then on another and wasnt but i drink and nothing ever happens. I smoke weed every now and again but not that much. As for the heavier stuff I try to stay awa…

6 minutes ago

BUS 374 replied to Crazy Diamond (Dave)'s discussion 'The Weather Thread'

We had clear, sunny skies yesterday, felt like 30. In for 6 to 10 inches of snow throughout Tuesday and Wednesday.

30 minutes ago

Lucy replied to Melissa Wang's discussion 'Need some direction Learning Forums, Schools, Help?????'

Hi, We live in Australia so our education system is probably different. My daughter goes to a mainstream school and has a teacher aide full time. She only goes 4 days a week to break it up for her as it was too much 5 days and has the aide one on o…

1 hour ago

Peter Ingalls replied to cheryl's discussion 'Seizure Awarness'

It would also mean we wouldn't spend three hours in the ER room taking our 6th drug test because the nurses refuse to consider that some with complex partial epilepsy might be having a complex partial seizure because of their epilepsy and not becaus…

1 hour ago

Anthony Murray added a discussion

Patient and doctor relationship. What has happened?

Recently I saw the neurologist and brought with me a list of seizure activity and questions I was hoping to have answered. After 15 minutes the dr. told me he couldn't answer anymore questions due to other patients waiting to be seen. I continued t…

1 hour ago

MrsLinkgetter replied to Helen Crenshaw's discussion 'veeg ... video eeg....digitrace study'

I had to teach myself as well and have often been taught like I am ignorant!! 11 years ago, no internet and the books in the Library were SCARCE and OLD! The first doctor told us nothing (and he was on the professional Advisory board of our state's…

2 hours ago

Tamelia Tumlin added a discussion

Has anyone allowed their child to go to any type of medical summer camp in their area?

I happened to come across some information today about med camps where children with special needs go to summer camp for several days/nights. These camps are equipped with nurses, on call doctors, trained counselors etc. The camp is also divided in…

2 hours ago

Louise commented on MrsLinkgetter's blog post 'Stop the Stigma'

I have yet to meet two people with epilepsy whose symptoms and medicine reactions are exactly the same. There are as many different stories as there are people living with epilepsy. I think our clinicians need to be open to listening to the stories…

3 hours ago

Michelle Bohning added a blog post

DREAM

check out my web site www.michellebohning.com I'm living my dream!!

3 hours ago

Jessesmom-Holly replied to Tricia-Mason's mom's discussion 'Milestones in our baby books..'

I'm in the same boat... kind of. Jesse is our third, so there wasn't a real good chance of getting a complete baby book anyway! #2 doesn't have much either. I'm not good about writing down the milestones and such, but I do take lots of pictures, jus…

3 hours ago

Seruzies commented on Ashley's group 'Life after Brain Surgery- Epilepsy'

Going in for WADA test in the AM, Dr thinks I'm a good surgery candidate but I still have to through all the tests. I don't really "want" to have surgery, but if surgery helps get this animal under control, whatever it takes!

4 hours ago

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