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Interview EP27  

Interview EP27

Age at Interview: 31
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 25
Background: Solicitor; married, one child.
Brief outline:Diagnosed with epilepsy in 1995. Tried a number of different drug treatments, and on average has about one seizure per year. Current medication: lamotrigine (Lamictal).


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Recalls the hand tremors she had with one drug and poor concentration with another.

 



And then one evening at work I had another seizure, and I got admitted to hospital. And then they started me on a new drug which was Epilim. 

And that was all right. But just before I was about to see the neurologist, about two weeks after coming out of hospital to see how I was getting on, I noticed I had a tremor. My hands were going (shakes her hands). And I thought OK it wasn't that bad, I can cope with that. But as soon as the neurologist saw, I thought I might have imagined it, so when I showed him straight away he said 'Oh no, you can't take Epilim'. So he stopped that and then he put me on lamotrigine. And that's what I take now. 

So you started taking the Tegretol straight away? Did you feel any side-effects? 

No, not initially but after about eighteen months I was working as a trainee solicitor and I felt that I couldn't concentrate very well, and that my memory wasn't very good. And I found it quite frustrating. And I thought that was to do with the Tegretol and I raised that with the neurologist. And in the end he did say that it could possibly be  connected but he still wanted me to take it. 
Jonathan Miller - Epilepsy
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