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The first seizure that I can remember happened when I was about 8 years old. I didn’t understand what it meant, but suddenly...
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Connie's StoryanemptytextllineMy name is Connie. I’ve had epilepsy for about seven years now and I’ve had the RNS for about three months. -
Tammey's StoryanemptytextllineHello! My name is Tammey and I am a Registered Nurse Educator, wife, and mother. On October 07, 2007 at 4AM, my life as... -
Will's StoryanemptytextllineMy name’s Will and I was born in 1975. Growing up, my visual memory was not very good; I didn’t enjoy reading books... -
Heather's StoryanemptytextllineMy name is Heather. I am 30 years old and I live in North Carolina. I had my first seizure during my senior year... -
Erica's StoryanemptytextllineHi, my name is Erica, and I had my RNS System placed in 2016. My struggle with epilepsy started about 9 years ago. -
Helen and Marshall's StoryanemptytextllineWe first noticed Marshall was having incidents when he was about two years old and at age three, he was diagnosed with epilepsy.... -
Tim's StoryanemptytextllineWhen my son, Gabe, was 4 years old, his mother and I got divorced. After that, Gabe lived with his mom, so he... -
Drew's StoryanemptytextllineWhen I was twelve, a large schwannoma tumor was removed from the right frontal lobe of my brain. A few months after the... -
Christine's StoryanemptytextllineMy name is Christine. I’m 54 years old and have always lived in Massachusetts. I’m married with five children and one granddaughter. When the... -
Kaeti's StoryanemptytextllineMy name is Kaeti. I’m 29 and I live in Anacortes, on the coast of Washington State. I had my first seizure when... -
Janie's StoryanemptytextllineMy name is Janie. I live in Georgia with my husband and two children. Epilepsy has limited my life in all sorts of ways. -
Don's StoryanemptytextllineMy name is Don. I live in Chicago where I work as a designer at an engineering firm. I had my first grand mal... -
Courtney's StoryanemptytextllineMy name is Courtney Derr. When I was 23 years old, I started having partial complex epileptic seizures. When a seizure began, I would... -
Mollie's StoryanemptytextllineMy name is Mollie, I'm 24 and I live outside of Atlanta. I live in the same small town where I grew up. It’s the kind... -
Tracey's StoryanemptytextllineOne summer they found a cavernous malformation and then they did surgery on that, and it was the scar tissue from that surgery that caused... -
Carolyn's StoryanemptytextllineHi my name is Carolyn and when I was 35 years old, I began to have grand mal seizures. I... -
Chrissy’s storyanemptytextllineMy name is Christine. I live just north of Denver, Colorado with my husband and two small children. I got married in 1998... -
Josh's StoryanemptytextllineMy name is Josh. I’m 41 years old. I’m a Texan – I grew up in Amarillo and then went to school at... -
Kathleen's StoryanemptytextllineMy parents were the first ones to know about my condition, and I didn't say much to my family because I was kind of embarrassed. -
Emily's StoryanemptytextllineMy name is Emily. In 2006, I was in a car accident during my senior year in high school. After that, I started having ‘staring spells.’ -
Our Stories - Volume IIanemptytextllineA collection of video stories from Connie, Ian, Luisa, Susan and Paul, Ariceli and Richard, and Brianna -
Luisa's StoryanemptytextllineMy name is Luisa Fields and I am 37 years old. I first started having seizures when I became pregnant with my first son... -
Nancy's StoryanemptytextllineMy name is Nancy. I live in Erie, Pennsylvania alongside Lake Erie. I worked in medicine for over 30 years.... -
Danny's StoryanemptytextllineMy name is Danny. I’m 47 years old and I’ve had epileptic seizures for most of my life starting when I was 12... -
Ian's StoryanemptytextllineMy name is Ian Olsen, I am 27 years old and began having seizures at age 11. -
Erick's StoryanemptytextllineI had my first seizure in March 2007, about a month before I turned 19 years old. I was attending a technical college at the... -
Richard's StoryanemptytextllineHi, my name is Richard Lopez, I have epilepsy and I’ve had epilepsy since I was 13. I got the RNS System on June 11th,... -
Susan and Paul's StoryanemptytextllineI’m Susan Hogue and I’m mom. My son is Paul and he’s had epilepsy for almost 30 years now. -
Michael's StoryanemptytextllineMy name is Michael, and I live in Texas. I have been living with epilepsy for more than 20 years. My epilepsy was... -
Ouida's StoryanemptytextllineI was 29 years old and had been living and working in China for about a year when I had my first generalized tonic-clonic seizure. -
Kimberly's StoryanemptytextllineAt 26, out of nowhere Kimberly Bari suddenly started having seizures and debilitating anxiety. Fate brought her to UCSF Medical Center where doctors have been... -
Tyler's StoryanemptytextllineIn the autumn of 2012, I suddenly started to stutter. I spoke with a lisp when I was a child, so at the... -
John's StoryanemptytextllineI experienced my first seizure in August, 1991. I had just graduated from the University of Wisconsin with my bachelor’s degree and was headed down... -
Kim's StoryanemptytextllineMy name is Kim. I live in a small town in New Hampshire. When you have epilepsy and you live in a small town, it... -
Adison's StoryanemptytextllineMy name is Adison. I’m 23 years old and live near Sacramento, California. I started having seizures when I was... -
Kim's StoryanemptytextllineI was six months old when it was first realized something was wrong. I was running a fever and my mother took me to the... -
Ricky's StoryanemptytextllineMy name is Ricky and I’ve had RNS System for about ten months. I used to suffer from a lot... -
Paula's StoryanemptytextllineMy name is Paula. The first time I had a grand mal seizure, I was 19 years old. -
Jason's StoryanemptytextllineMy name is Jason. I am 35 years old and I live near Tampa, Florida with my wife and two children. -
Carlo's StoryanemptytextllineMy name is Carlo I am 28, and I have had epilepsy for 28 years. My childhood was sprinkled with periods of activity and inactivity.
