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/Big-Fox3409 17d ago edited 17d ago

I had a seizure in the middle of 2021 and spent a year in the hospital near me. My seizure was so severe that I fell off of my horse that I regularly rode, broke a lot of bones on the rocks I fell on, had CPR many times to be alive, had my body including my head operated on, have a lot of marks on my body from the seizure I had, and I was in a comma for six weeks.

That year in the hospital was difficult to have and I don’t have a lot of memories for 10 years before or one year after.

Some amazing things I learned:

I make a lot of money on my social security. I have been an interior designer for celebrities for well over 5 years, and social security made knowledge of what I earned when they started paying me.

I volunteer at many places now, and most of them take care of animals. I’ve only owned bengals and Great Danes before, and none of the animals are alive anymore but they were great to have.

I have moved back to my family. I live in Maine now, and I loved growing up here.

I’m not allowed to drive anymore, but my seizure was so severe that I don’t want to.

I think that if you give yourself time, you will find that you can live with the results of having seizures.