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Sexual development (puberty)

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Last updated 03 Aug 2009, review date due 03 Feb 2010

Puberty is the time when your outward appearance changes from a girl to a woman and your body becomes prepared to have children. If you have had lots of seizures during your childhood and take anti-epileptic drugs, you may find that you go through puberty later than some of your friends. This may be because the system in your body that releases hormones develops later than in girls who don’t have epilepsy.

  

 

More in this section: 

  • Sexual development (puberty)
  • Sex life
  • Your periods (the menstrual cycle)
  • Contraception
  • The menopause and HRT
  • Epilepsy and fertility
  • Planning a baby
  • Scans and tests during pregnancy
  • Giving birth
  • Breastfeeding
  • Caring for children
  • Inheriting epilepsy
  • How you can help Epilepsy Action
  • Epilepsy Mine

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