ABSTRACT
First of all I should explain that I have no medical training but have picked up some of the terms and words used in the treatment of my epilepsy. I live a normal life and always have done which is perhaps why I tend to forget I've got epilepsy. I know that I have left temporal lobe/ complex partial epilepsy. Only some of my fits are tonic clonic and since my neurologist changed my medication regime, my seizures have all been during sleep — which is good, though I now have the indignity of occasional incontinence to deal with! I have between 9–12 seizures a month brought on by stress, tiredness and monthly hormonal changes.
