Women with epilepsy taking anti-epileptic drugs may have difficulty in preventing pregnancy using some contraception methods. This usually happens because some anti-epileptic drugs especially enzyme-inducing anti-epileptic drugs may interact with the methods…
Category: Grand Mal Adults & Elderly
Epilepsy and Dating – Should I Tell That I Have Epilepsy at the Very First Date
Dating or maintaining an intimate relationship is not an issue for people who experience seizures once in a while. But for people, who experience multiple seizures more frequently, dating and maintaining romantic…
How Menopause Affects Seizure Activity
Studies conducted by American Academy of Family Physicians reveal that about 1 percent of the population suffers from seizures induced epilepsy. And though women and men both are affected similarly, but research…
Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy Treatment
Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy or JME is characterized by the presence of petit mal seizures (also known as absence seizures), grand mal seizures (also known as generalized tonic-clonic seizures) and myoclonic convulsions. It…
Intractable Epilepsy
When epilepsy is uncontrolled, it shows the continuous manifestation of an intolerable quantity of seizures despite judicious treatment. The amount of seizures considered intolerable reliant on the patient’s lifestyle, the nature of…
Grand Mal Seizures and the Dangers They Pose on a Pregnant Woman and Her Child
Grand mal seizures, also known as tonic-clonic seizures, are caused by disorders in the electrical activities of the brain. Electrical signals in the brain are transmitted as nerve impulses and the relaying…
Seizures In Older Adults
Upon the arrival of a tonic clonic or grand mal seizures you may notice sudden stiffness in body, loss of consciousness, slow jerking movements in you or your dear one. They are…
What Fractures can Result from Grand Mal Seizures?
Grand Mal Seizures can result in injuries Bilateral intracapsular fracture of hip is one of the rare consequences of grand mal seizure. Such cases have been reported mostly in elderly and adults….
Grand Mal Seizure in Pregnancy
Don’t “Joke” with Grand Mal Seizures There are a lot of women that belong to the age bracket of childbearing years have seizure disorders. Once a woman with a history of grand…