Developing Epilepsy

 I have to take medicine like everyone else with epilepsy. 1 in the morning 2 at night. Sometimes it’s hard because I don’t remember to take it and my chance of having another seizure increases. I do regular things like everyone else but when I’m in the sun I have mini-seizures. It gets really annoying after a while because I can’t do much while having one, since I space out.

 I first began developing epilepsy when I was 8 years old. I was playing soccer, when in the middle of the field I started to have a mini seizure and no one knew what it was. One minute I was dribbling the ball down the soccer field, the next I was standing there waving my hand back and forth across my forehead.  No one could understand why I couldn't hear them yelling my name.  Then my Mom asked if I could hear her when I was "waving," but no, I  I couldn't.  I kept going to the doctor and 2 years later we found out that it was epilepsy but it wasn’t too bad so I did not take medicine.  Now it has developed a lot and since the first gran mal seizure I have been taking medicine 24-7 2 times a day and I’ve been getting better since.

 So epilepsy may be hard but there still are ways to help you manage your every day life.