Any epileptic cyclist out there??

[Aggie_Ama]

I do not have epilepsy, but I have movement disorder that requires epilepsy meds. I cannot encourage you enough to get in the care of a good neurologist that will listen to you; maybe you can even find a clinic deditcated to epilepsy. They will understand you desire to live your life and work to make that happen.

My first neurologist had me doped up on a medicine that made me seriously depressed and refused to take me off because "it was working". Yeah, I wasn't shaking but I didn't want to get out of bed either. Anyway, I know a couple of epiletics and they are able to do the things they want with minimal restrictions. It definitely is not the best or worst diagnosis.

[Brandi]

I am epileptic. But I have not been on the medication or had a seizure in years. They said mine was due to stress and bad sleeping habits. I went through a lot test and they never found anything like a leasion on my brain or anything like that.
But I thought I was going mad when it was happening. People would be talking to me then all of sudden it was like they were talking backwards and i could not respond no matter how hard I would try. Then the people who were talking to me would say I blacked out. The strange thing is I don't remember ever blacking out. I woke up with awful headaches in the morning. Turned out I would have grand mal seizures in my sleep.
I found the the medication did help. Eventually my life changed and the stress lessend I also learned to deal with the stress. yoga helped a lot!
I would still ride as long as your Dr says it's ok. And the medication is controlling it. Get plenty of sleep and try and not stress. If you need to talk pm me. it can be scary I know.