Hi, apologise for gatecrashing mumsnet but as a single parent I find this a great source of info and experience.
This week, my 18 year old had a seizure whilst we travelling in the car. She has been sensitive for a few years to bright sunlight strobing through trees as you drive, but had previously dismissed it as a 'funny turn'. This week was different - she clearly went into seizure for at least 2 mins and I had to stop the car and call an ambulance. I had never witnessed a seizure before and there was a point where I know that both myself and my youngest DD thought that we were losing her. [In hindsight we think she had another seizure 6 months ago, where she fell over and hit her head. This was during freshers week, so we put it down to alcohol, but she didn't have a hangover the following morning, which always seemed odd.]
The A and E tests (EEG,bloods) were normal but clearly this is something that will now absolutely need to be followed up with a neurologist.
Now that she is over the initial shock of what happened, she is quite understandably starting to think about the longer term implications. Firstly, we have to cancel her driving test, which is a real blow to her as she looking forward to having that freedom. But she is currently at uni, over 200 miles away. She is nervous about living away from home, in halls, in her own room, on her own. She is also questioning doing medicine as a career, as she thinks the seizure could also have been somewhat triggered by lack of sleep.
What I am really looking for is any experiences of having a child at uni, with epilepsy (I'm assuming that this is ultimately what will be diagnosed), and being able to tackle a demanding degree course whilst taking anti seizure meds? Basically I am wondering (as I think she is) whether a diagnosis of epilepsy would mean a wholesale rethink. It's crushing TBH, because she had worked so hard to get to this point. Many thanks
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Epilepsy, uni and living away from home
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Jon1970 · 14/04/2019 08:23
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