Scuba diving
It is recommended by the British Sub-Aqua Club that people are free from awake attacks and off anti-epileptic medication for five years before scuba diving.
People who have only experienced seizures whilst asleep should be three years seizure free and off anti-epileptic medication.
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Epilepsy advice and information
- What is epilepsy?
- Children
- Depression
- Disability Discrimination Act (UK)
- Driving
- Education
- Employment
- Entitlements for people with epilepsy in England
- Epilepsy and caring for children: a comprehensive guide
- Epilepsy in later life
- Epilepsy information for prisons
- Getting a diagnosis
- Identity jewellery
- Inheritance
- Learning disabilities
- Living with dificult to control epilepsy
- Me and my dad
- Memory
- Men and Epilepsy
- Mobile phones and epilepsy
- Osteoporosis, osteomalacia and epilepsy
- Photosensitive epilepsy
- Safety
- Seizures
- Sports and leisure
- Alcohol, recreational drugs and epilepsy
- Epilepsy at altitudes
- Cosmetic treatments
- The cinema
- Climbing
- Contact sports
- Cycling
- Extreme sports
- Fishing
- In the gym
- Hiking and rambling
- Jacuzzis, saunas and steam rooms
- Martial arts
- Night clubs
- Other sports
- Racquet sports
- Riding
- Scuba diving
- Skiing
- Swimming
- Theme parks
- Water Sports
- Yoga
- Stress and epilepsy
- Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP)
- Swine flu and epilepsy
- Syndromes
- Travel abroad
- Treatment
- Women and epilepsy
- Young people and epilepsy
- Epilepsy Action and the Information Standard
- The Epilepsies: You, Epilepsy and the NICE Guideline
- Epilepsy Action Information Reviewers (EAIRs)
- Technical editing/writing and copyright
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