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  <title>Epilepsy Foundation eCommunities</title> 
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		<title>nem member</title>
		<link>http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/efforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&amp;threadid=87119</link> 
		<pubDate>2009-08-30T23:41:58 -05.00</pubDate> 
		<dc:creator>mike2390</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ i only joined a few days ago and im looking to make freinds around my age that i can talk to]]></description>
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		<title>support group in garden city new york</title>
		<link>http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/efforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&amp;threadid=87118</link> 
		<pubDate>2009-08-30T22:57:39 -05.00</pubDate> 
		<dc:creator>mike2390</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ does anyone go to the epilepsy foundation support group in garden city new york ?? im new to the site and have been thinking of going to the group but dnt knw anyone who goes]]></description>
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		<title>im new to the site</title>
		<link>http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/efforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&amp;threadid=87115</link> 
		<pubDate>2009-08-28T16:18:03 -05.00</pubDate> 
		<dc:creator>mike2390</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ my names mike i was first diagnosed with right sided tempral lobe seizures(partial complex) at a year and a half old. and just recently less then a week ago i had my first grand mal seizure and im now turning 19.my seizures have stoped and came back at random times throughout my life but mostly happen in my sleep. because of the grand mal seizure i had this week they are switching my meds and my doctor has made me quit boxing and my license has been takin away for a year it seems like things are just gettin harder and i really dont know wat to do so if anyone has any advice feel free to email me at tino1fan@optonline.net find me on facebook or message me on aim my screenname is runningman2390 any help is apreciated<br /><br /><br />                                                                                        <br />                                                                                              thanks,<br />                                                                                                         Mike]]></description>
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		<title>Dont you get that feeling.</title>
		<link>http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/efforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&amp;threadid=87098</link> 
		<pubDate>2009-08-26T22:44:25 -05.00</pubDate> 
		<dc:creator>Karizmaluvx3</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I want to cry, seriously. This pills are freaking annoying. I skip days and mom likes yelling at me when I forget to take 'em. Im exteremaly senstive because of the pills so I start crying. My brother and sister pushes me around and often make fun of my serizues. This effin sucks I dont even know why I have seizures!!!!! No one in my family has it!! No one knows about this illness and dont think they can freaking help me. Its like just freaking google it. Then doctor like oh the pills can make you live normal. THEY CANT. These freaking pills dont stop nothing i still get my mild serizues.<br />I wanna freaking breakdown and like run away from it all. All I have is my fansite with people who actually care, this site, and 2 friends. <br /><br /><br />im sorry about that. i just needed to rant. i know my life wont be the same but<br />do you feel like no ones listening or caring?]]></description>
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		<title>The Aftermath of the Seizure</title>
		<link>http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/efforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&amp;threadid=87089</link> 
		<pubDate>2009-08-25T21:55:19 -05.00</pubDate> 
		<dc:creator>NKteacher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ So whats the last thing you notice before you have a seizure? Whats the fire thing you think of when you collect yourself after the seizure? What's the process  you have to go through after the seizure?<br /><br /><br />ex:<br /><br /><br />The last thing I remember is I go on the computer and feeling as if my brain jumped from inside my head. Then I wake up without any memory of going to sleep and I see my parents standing over me and that's when I know that I had another seizure. That and my tongue killing majorly...lol]]></description>
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		<title>Brain Surgury</title>
		<link>http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/efforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&amp;threadid=87073</link> 
		<pubDate>2009-08-22T21:34:11 -05.00</pubDate> 
		<dc:creator>purple23</dc:creator>
   	    <slash:comments>5</slash:comments> 
		<description><![CDATA[ Has anyone have brain surgury and is it scary .......<br /><br />im get it done soon and i want to know what your experience has been like.]]></description>
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		<title>play exposing life with epilepsy</title>
		<link>http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/efforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&amp;threadid=87054</link> 
		<pubDate>2009-08-17T13:13:59 -05.00</pubDate> 
		<dc:creator>camels</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Hi,<br /><br />I grew up with epilepsy and at 16 I had brain surgery to remove the part of the brain affected.  In the past I have done a ton of volunteering for Epilepsy organizations and raised over $5000 which was donated to the cause. <br /><br /> Currently I am 25 and am in the midst of writing a one-woman play revolving around living with epilepsy. I am planning to do an international tour with this next summer, hitting NYC, Toronto, London, and Edinbrough. <br /><br />I would like to have your input! If you had the chance to expose to the world what life with epilepsy is really like - what is the main message you would want to get across? What would you say? Anything goes and everything is confidential. I am using what people are willing to tell me as inspiration only. <br /><br />please email me at epilepsystories@gmail.com or you may reply to this post directly if you would prefer.<br /><br />Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you!!]]></description>
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		<title>new member looking for a place to fit in</title>
		<link>http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/efforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&amp;threadid=87053</link> 
		<pubDate>2009-08-15T21:23:17 -05.00</pubDate> 
		<dc:creator>rockingeorgiagirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Hi my name is Stephanie and I'm 14 years old soon to become 15.I was diagnosed with epilepsy a year ago from june 8th. My first seizure was one of the worst things that had happened to me. I was in my room sleeping on a school night then,I felt like someone was choking me and yet I couldn't see.I tried calling for help but obviously I wasn't able to talk,I thought I was dying because I had never had that feeling before. I tried telling my mom but she said that I was just trying to wake up but my body didn't want to.Yeah I tried to believe her because I didn't even know it was a seizure.Just to shorten my story...My mom eventually believed me and I was treated.I honestly don't think that the fact that I'm "different" has soaked in yet.Lately I've been very irresponsible with taking my medication because ehh I don't know I thought I'm too cool for medication because I'm going to be a freshman in high school.Right now I'm taking control of myself and I'm just looking for a place where people my age or close to my age understand what I'm going through because no one I know does.]]></description>
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		<title>Questions:What&apos;s your trigger? Ever feel like just screaming about it?Do you hate it when people constantly say kid&apos;s with epilepsy can live *normal* lives?</title>
		<link>http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/efforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&amp;threadid=87051</link> 
		<pubDate>2009-08-14T21:38:35 -05.00</pubDate> 
		<dc:creator>jrose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I have a photosensitivity trigger. I was diagnosed about a year ago, and I'm going to be a sophmore. Grand mal seizures, all that jazz<br />I'm sorry, people say that the medicine will help you live a normal life, that just makes me so...angry. <br />I live in a super suburb. And I mean I just feel like screaming, Normal really docs? I can't go see concerts, nor 3d movies, I can never watch the movie rent,I can't watch black and white movies in general.and I had to leave my first ever homecoming. That was devasting. I dropped 19 pounds too. Is any of that normal? <br />And then comes the guilt. Do I really deserve to be angry over this, when they're are people out there who have worse neruological disorders then me?<br /><br />So what's your story? Does any one out there have a photosensitive trigger too?]]></description>
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		<title>just trying to live</title>
		<link>http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/efforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&amp;threadid=87045</link> 
		<pubDate>2009-08-13T14:40:11 -05.00</pubDate> 
		<dc:creator>blondsmtk368</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I have been diagnosed for 13 years. ive known that driving would be a problem as i got older, but now all of my friends are taking drivers ed and i feel completly left out. i went to the doctors and he said wait until thanksgiving. im sick of waiting. im sick of the questions and explaining it. im sick of teachers and counslers looking at me like they cant help me when my grades are suffering because im slower than everyone else. i just want this to end. its been here for way to long. i just feel more alone than i have in awhile.]]></description>
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