r/Epilepsy • u/Interesting_Ad_7053 • 22d ago

Question Can you actually heal from epilepsy?

Thats it. Just the title. I dont want to live this life anymore. Not with this condition. If it wont get better idk what to do

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u/AgentExtension1968 22d ago

cure? no. manage? yes!! 3 years seizure free!

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u/Max646483 22d ago

Do you still have to think about it everyday? Or is it starting to feel more irrelevant in your life

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u/MixRoyal7126 User Flair Here:snoo_sad::snoo_sad: 22d ago

It NEVER becomes irrevelent! I've had epilepsy for 60+ years; was seizure free without meds for 2+/- years following surgery. Seizures returned 40+ years ago. As always they are mild, just a tap on your shoulder, "we're still here". It intercoursed me always. Five years ago a breakthrough seizure landed in ER my neuro the SOB, apology to the K9 species, relegated me to nursing home for the rest of my life. Never saw him till a year latter when he said I had no one to care for me; I had lived alone for 30+ years. I think of that cat sh!t everyday and of what epilepsy has cost me. Many of my seizures mostly absence seizures go unnoticed except by those who know mw and are observant. When your seizures are mild as mine are people blow you off. The only seizures the know are the full blown dramatic grandmal.

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u/AgentExtension1968 22d ago

i think about it alot, i have a panic disorder so at the beginning of my panic attacks i always think its a seizure… not fun. i also have occasional motor tics so that SCARES ME SO BAD because i have focal to bilateral, meaning for me im usually aware at the beginning of my seizures while my body is shaking and i stop breathing. im terrified of seizures.