Dr Ingo Helbig on Epilepsy, Genes, and Dravet Syndrome
In honor of Dravet Syndrome Awareness Month we wanted to highlight the important advances being made in testing genes in the area of epilepsy.… Read More
Epilepsy Blog Relay: November is Epilepsy Awareness Month
If you are newly diagnosed or just now looking into connecting with others living with epilepsy, we may not have met. I’m Jessica K. Smith, founder and CEO of Living Well With Epilepsy and I was diagnosed with epilepsy after having several tonic clonic (grand mal) seizures the summer between seventh and … Read More
Epilepsy Awareness Month 2018: What you need to know
November is Epilepsy Awareness Month and it’s a great opportunity to get people talking about a disease that affects between 1-3% of the world’s population.… Read More
Epilepsy Blog Relay™: Guess Who’s Back
Guess who’s back on the Living Well With Epilepsy site and sharing her recent go-round with seizures…Read on to find out if your guess is right!… Read More
Epilepsy Blog Relay™: Seeing Seizures from a New Perspective
Though I’ve lived with Epilepsy for most of my life, watching a family member experience seizures for the first time was harder than I ever imagined.… Read More
Epilepsy Blog Relay™: David’s Reverie
This post is part of the Epilepsy Blog Relay™ which will run from November 1 through November 30. Follow along and add comments to posts that inspire you! Creativity and Epilepsy My name is Neil Creque Williams and I’m the Writer/Director of “David’s Reverie.” “David’s Reverie” is a short film about David, … Read More
Epilepsy Blog Relay™: Week 1 Recap
This week Living Well With Epilepsy launched another Epilepsy Blog Relay™ to mark the first week of Epilepsy Awareness Month. Here’s a recap in case you missed any of this week’s posts.… Read More
Epilepsy Blog Relay™: How a diagnosis of LGS connected one family to an entire community
This post was written by Elizabeth Terry, a historian and author in St. Louis, and mom to Spencer who has Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS). Living Well With Epilepsy is grateful to Lundbeck, a Sponsor of the November 2015 Epilepsy Blog Relay™. I remember my husband and I whispering to each other, “Is this … Read More