So often, we all get wrapped up in communicating through social media outlets and spreading the word about Epilepsy via chatrooms. Are we caught up on the news about the disease?

My Grandma, despite her toughness, had a remarkable capacity for understanding Epilepsy…my Epilepsy.

Once you get the ‘NO’ on surgery and you’ve experimented with multiple meds, is there anything left that will help you take back your life from a life of seizures?

More than likely there is a drug-treatment out there for your Epilepsy, but it’s a matter of managing your expectations

Switching doctors…or even getting a second opinion shouldn’t be something you fear. It’s a necessary part of your care.

If you’re like me, when it comes to your illness–in this case Epilepsy, if it’s time to try something new, whether it’s an anti-seizure medication, a test, a new doctor, treatment center or alternative therapy, the research floodgates are opened. My computer becomes my best friend.

“Pick a passion.” That was the advice of a great neurologist I began seeing in Baltimore at Johns Hopkins several years ago. After looking over my medical records and my overall situation, he told me that it was likely my cognitive skills would suffer, my memory would be damaged and everything I had learned about [...]

If you’re like me, you’re always wondering not only how can you help yourself through this disease we call Epilepsy, but how can you help others?

If you’re like me, you are so hungry to learn more about your Epilepsy. I can’t get enough data; online, in books, at conferences, from my doctors. In my more than seven years living with this disease, I’ve realized that not only do I gobble up information from my doctors and those various resources, but I’m taught by others who [...]

First…my apologies for skipping out on you for the last two days! I was under the weather…I mean REALLY under the weather. I don’t think I can ever recall feeling that sick. Call it the 24-hour flu bug, Montezuma’s revenge, my girlfriend Robin thinks I shake too many hands and caught some major germs, my husband thinks [...]