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  • Treatment

  • Visiting your doctor

  • Sex and sexuality

    • Could epilepsy have had an effect on me during puberty?
    • Will I have seizures when I’m having sex?
    • Will epilepsy make me lose interest in sex?
    • How can having epilepsy affect my testosterone levels?
    • Can epilepsy cause impotence?

 

  • Becoming a father

    • Can epilepsy affect my fertility?
    • Will my anti-epileptic drugs cause birth defects in my babies?
    • Will my children inherit my epilepsy?
    • Can I look after a baby or child safely?

 

 

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A man's guide to epilepsy

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Having had epilepsy for approx. 35yrs. & having gone through all the tribulations as a teenager. The day I started to accept it was the first day I started to live properly & did not let the seizures dominate my life. I have broken my neck as a result of a seizure, got on with life, travelled the world twice on my own.
The only worrying thing at this moment & for approx. 20yrs now is my sex life.
I have met someone now, wish to have a normal relationship but cannot perform (i.e. E.D.).
I do believe it is my medication! What about the use of Viagra? My blood pressure is normal, nothing else to worry about. Does anyone know? I do not wish to go to my doctor with this as he would refer me on!

Submitted by Declan Nugent on 13 July, 2008 - 13:43.

Declan - I've had epilepsy for 44yrs myself and have travelled the world on more than one occasion. It takes a man to handle epilepsy. I'm married too and those around me think I'm mad - that's because they can't understand the enormous pressures that you have to learn to cope with. Firstly, take a good look at yourself and be certain that you have got the sexuality bit right. Even the the best of us can get that one wrong! All the same I take my hat off to you for being a person of the same blood as myself. May God be with you. Regards, Steve

Submitted by steve.baguley on 9 July, 2009 - 05:45.

hi my husband who is epileptic had a seizure yesterday that as totally out o character for him. He usually falls backwards and goes down with a real bang if you dont catch him. I wasnt there yesterday but my daughter said he started to walk strangely and ended up on his knees leant againt the radiator before he started fitting. he definatley never fell. ive never experienced this before.has anybody experienced this before and why the change in his seizure activity.

Submitted by sarah on 4 October, 2009 - 09:42.

my names is James and I was diagnosed with myoclonic epilepsy at a very early age I think I was about 5 or 6 how ever i haved been on epilim since then and im now 26 I have now been told they are doutfull i have epilepsy.
the consern is even though i have the myoclonic jerks if its not epilepsy what can be causing it and will the epilim medication have damaged anypart of my body if it comes back as not havin epilepsy.

Submitted by James Hallas on 8 December, 2009 - 18:43.