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EPILEPSY

What is Epilepsy?
People with epilepsy are just like everybody else, except they sometimes have seizures. A seizure is a caused by a sudden burst of excess electrical activity in the brain, causing a temporary disruption in the normal message passing between brain cells. This results in the brain's messages becoming temporarily halted or mixed up.

The brain is responsible for all our bodily functions, so what a person experiences during a seizure will depend on where in the brain the epileptic activity begins and how widely and rapidly it spreads. For this reason, there are many different types of seizure and each person will experience epilepsy in a way that is unique to them.

Seizures can happen at any time and they generally only last a matter of seconds or minutes, after which the brain usually returns to normal.

Epilepsy Care: what to expect
It is recommended that every epilepsy patient is reviewed annually by a healthcare professional.

The review will include the following:

• Your seizures and any questions about them
• For women questions about contraception and possible pregnancy
• Taking your epilepsy medicines and how you are getting on with them. You may wish to discuss side effects. You may be worried about being given different tablets to your normal ones.
• Speak up about any worries you may have. You may want to discuss getting the right balance between side effects of your medicines and seizure control. You may want to discuss feeling stressed and anxious.

An appointment for review will be sent to epilepsy patients around the month of their birth. The review is covered by two appointments; the first appointment will be with the Health Care Assistant for 10 minutes for blood tests and a urine check. The second appointment is usually one week later with a healthcare professional; this is for 30 minutes for a full annual assessment.

Clinics are held at the William Brown Centre.