Gina’s Story: Navigating Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE) from childhood to adulthood
Gina was born with temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). As a child, the doctors tried everything, but her seizures got worse. Now as an adult she’s thriving!… Read More
Epilepsy Blog Relay: The temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) experience
Nancy remembers how her temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) seizures always began with a feeling of deja vu and a sensation of falling.… Read More
Epilepsy Blog Relay: A screenwriter shares her experience with epilepsy
Alisa Kennedy Jones, a screenwriter and author of GOTHAM GIRL INTERRUPTED found herself diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of forty.… Read More
Epilepsy Blog Relay: Lily on living with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Lily was diagnosed with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy in her 40s. She shares her journey from diagnosis to a treatment that works for her.… Read More
Epilepsy Blog Relay: Elaine uses poetry to cope with adversity and a life with TLE
This post is part of the Epilepsy Blog Relay™, which will run from June 1 to June 30, 2018. Follow along! Elaine’s Story I was diagnosed with epilepsy at age four. At that time, early 1960s, one of the few medications available for epilepsy was phenobarbital. Concerned about negative side effects for … Read More
Epilepsy Blog Relay: Déjà Vu and temporal lobe epilepsy in real life
At 29, I began to experience mysterious episodes of déjà vu followed by nausea and exhaustion. It took doctors 5 yrs and a tonic clonic seizure to diagnose these episodes as epilepsy.… Read More