"Jose J. Ortiz-Carlo" wrote:
> The articles describe, however, that these symptoms are often associated
> (get a load of this) with a relatively mild type of a specific form of
> epilepsy. I was able to confirm this through a local neurologist.
My mother-in-law had a bad form of epilepsy when she was growing up. When
she was an adult, she worked as a secretary at a medical school in Dallas
(in fact, the medical school associated with Parkland, where Kennedy was
taken after he was shot; that's one day she's not likely to forget for
awhile) and one of the doctors worked with her to try to find a medication
that would control it. They'd tried everything that would take care of
grand mal seizures, to no avail, and then they started working their way
through the things commonly prescribed for petit mal seizures, and found one
that worked for her. She was on the stuff for years and years. (She's off
it now. It went off the market, and her doctor pointed out that she might
have outgrown the epilepsy, and she doesn't have *that* problem anymore, at
least....)
So with that history, it was likely that she'd have a child with epilepsy.
My brother-in-law seems to be unaffected, but my husband appears to have a
very mild form. He first started having problems when he sat too close to
the screen in movie theaters, getting vertigo, etc. His doctor told him to
sit farther back in the theater. His doctor further told him that losing
too much blood too quickly might set off a seizure, so he doesn't give blood
for that reason. (Same thing for his mother.) I haven't heard him
complaining about FPS games, but he doesn't play those very often these days
anyway.
Julia
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