That means I had all the symptoms of Good Morning I went one year with no seizures, but they came back with the same prodromal symptoms as before. I have also had a temporal lobe resection. I have had a VNS, but it did no good and I am not a candidate for the RNS because of all the scar tissue in my brain. I have taken part in clinical trials under the care of Dr. So many things that are said to trigger seizures, such as stress, artificial sweeteners, and others, do not affect me. I had one brilliant neurologist tell me that the seizure was caused because I didn't want to go to church. I noticed this when my mother would drive me to church, and the setting sun flashing through the trees would cause a seizure. Flashing or flickering lights are the first trigger I noticed. I didn't even know that was a hormone but I went three months without a seizure. I was so stressed that I couldn't sleep, so I started to take melatonin every night. About a year ago, my husband was diagnosed with cancer and underwen emergency surgery. I would have seizures while on the treadmill and learned it was because a drop in my blood sugar. Estrogen is the obvious one since the seizures were catamenial. I know that my seizures are triggered by fluctuations in my hormones. I had no seizures during either of my two pregnancies. During my teens and early twenties, my seizures were catamenial. I was started out on phenobarbital, but it did no good. I had my first seizure at age ten I am 67 now.

My mother didn t raise a quitter