The daily life of a person with epilepsy can be very frustrating. Many, if not most, people have a very limited understanding of the disorder. In many cases, people with epilepsy are avoided, or treated as if they are disabled. Epilepsy is not a disability. It is not a mental illness. It is a neurological disorder that disrupts normal brain activity for anywhere from a few seconds up to a minute or so. It is a temporary physical event that causes various symptoms, depending on how much of the brain is affected by the seizure. Because of a widespread misunderstanding of epilepsy, it is extremely hard for people with epilepsy to get good jobs, even though there are many famous, high achievers--including Supreme Court judges, professional football players, Congressmen, actors...--who have epilepsy. For more information, please go to www.epilepsyfoundation.org

The word intractable means hard to control. It can be used in relation to many things. Lots of things can be intractable. So intractable epilepsy is when someone's epilepsy is quite serious, difficult to control and as a result has a major impact on their lives. It is not a form of epilepsy, just a general description as to how serious a person's epilepsy has become. As it is a general term there is no specific point of measurement to say when someone has intractable epilepsy. The majority of people with epilepsy lead very normal lives. They only have seizures occasionally and most of the time they are fine and people that know them might not even know they have epilepsy. Only a very small amount of people have it to the extent that it could be said to be intractable.

Each case is different so there is no single answer to that question. There are many forms of seizure and many causes. A child would have to be assessed by a doctor to try and find the cause of their seizure.

the orgasm your having is making your body do things like that and if its just a regular question then the nerves

A properly qualified doctor would not misdiagnose in that manner. Medically they are very different conditions, though they can have some similar symptoms. This is why some people can confuse the two.

They can have seizures at any time a seizure threshold is passed. Things that typically increase the likelihood of an animal or person having a seizure include fatigue, stress, and flashing lights, but not the phase of the moon.

NOTE! This answer and all the other "naysayers" on this and other posts should stfu! My dog has had 6 seizures in the past 8 months EACH ONE WAS ON A FULL MOON! this morning I had no idea it was a full moon ... so yes typically for some reason unbeknownst to science and the experts MY DOG IS SEIZING ONLY DURING A FULL MOON! period end of story!

Dont listen to anyone that tells you theres no connection they just havnt found it yet.

It will depend on the type of job and how severe your epilepsy is. It would be a decision of who is hiring and their doctors as to whether you were fit for the job.

If you have drug resistant epilepsy then you should be evaluated for surgery. The testing takes a few weeks. Temporal lobe epilepsy is the most common type of epilepsy and surgery to correct it has the highest success rates. It will all depend on the area of the brain in which the seizures are originating from. Also the cause of your epilepsy plays a roll into whether or not you are a qualifying candidate. For example, if the cause of your seizures is from a birth defect then you are more likely to be an excellent candidate because if it's from a traumatic injury you are likely to have scar tissue and sometimes cannot be removed because of it's location. Therefore seizures cannot completely be eliminated but can be reduced. I had a right temporal lobectomy in March, 07' and have been seizure free every since. I was in the hospital 11 days. I am even off of medication. Regardless of the amount of time it takes, it is definitely worth a shot.

Depending on severity, they usually live just as long as people without epilpsy.

No US president is known to have had epilepsy.

Under most scenarios, it is impossible to have a seizure relating to the steroids unless:

1.) You inject a very large amount of the oil directly into a major vein

2.)You inject a large amount of air directly into a major vein

3.)You insert the needle directly into a major nerve bundle and leave it there.......

3.)Or you have an intense adverse allergic reaction to something in the oil

White, i would think

Actually, it is purple (some say lavendar) and is worn annually on March 26 to globally support and spread epilepsy awareness.

A brain tumour is a form of cancer. Epilepsy is not a cancer. A tumour can actually cause a seizure. A seizure could be one symptom of a tumour. However, this is a cause only in a very small amount of people who have epilepsy.

The brain is the only area affected by Epilepsy. As the brain controls many other parts of the body, other things can then be indirectly affected, like the nervous system, which is why shaking is sometimes associated with epilepsy. Seizures affect different people in different ways, so not everyone shakes when they have a seizure.

People can start to have seizures at any stage of their life, for all sorts of reasons. There is not one single cause. Seizures can be caused by a wide variety of things, so it would be impossible to answer that question definitively as each case is different.

There are all sorts of causes of seizures. Walking in itself would not be one of them. However someone with photosensitive epilepsy could have a seizure triggered if they encountered flashing lights or other interrupted light effects during a walk.

move evrything out of there way so they can not hurt them self losrn any cloththes they are wearing .NEVER stick a finger or anything in there mouth.tilt the there head to the side to let anything come out of the mouth .DO NOT hold the person down .just let it pass

There is no time or place that epilepsy can be said to have started. As long as there have been humans, many illnesses have existed and epilepsy would be one of them.

Epilepsy, or seizure.

That will depend on a number of factors, like where the person lives and the severity of their epilepsy. For most people epilepsy does not have any major impact on their lives, so they are able to study or work and earn a living for themselves, so they have no need of any benefits. They would be able to earn a lot more than any benefits they would get and are better off not being on any.

The nature of epilepsy is that a person having it is perfectly fine the vast majority of the time so they can live very normal lives, unlike someone who is blind or confined to a wheelchair, which affects them continuously. It is for illnesses that have major impacts on lives that people are most likely to need and get benefits. For the vast majority of people with epilepsy that is not the case.

As epilepsy can for some people be a lifelong condition, their medication might be subsidised. The person would need to talk to their doctor and local health authority about these kinds of things as this does not apply everywhere.

Generally, it would be no different than any other person. Epilepsy can be caused by a wide range of things. Any dietary advice can only be given if the details of a person's epilepsy is known. Talk to your doctor, although it is unlikely that any specific advice would be given.

The main problem for a person with epilepsy is that he will loose his self confidence, and will have fear like when crossing a road.

Flashing lights and strobe lights and other forms of irregular lighting can affect the optic nerve and the brain. Looking at any light for a prolonged time can do damage to your eyes, which is why you never do things like stare at the sun. Anyone at any stage of their life can have a seizure and never be diagnosed as having epilepsy. Someone who has recurring seizures is deemed to have epilepsy, but if you had one or two and never had any more, you would not be considered to have epilepsy.

So things that trigger seizures in someone who has epilepsy can trigger seizures in anyone. So strobe lights can trigger a seizure in anyone, even if it never happened again. People who have what is known as photosensitive epilepsy can have seizures triggered by strobe lights. Most people who have epilepsy do not have that form, and so strobe lights do not affect them any more than other people who don't have epilepsy at all. Someone who has photosensitive epilepsy has a lower level of susceptibility to strobe lights, than someone who doesn't, but exposing anyone to strobe lighting for long enough could cause them problems, as it is not good to look at it for a long time.