Membership
Are you:
- newly diagnosed and looking for information, advice and support?
- living with epilepsy and interested in information about medication, new research and hearing the experiences of others?
- a friend or family member of someone with epilepsy wanting to know more about caring for someone with epilepsy?
- passionate about your voice being heard in the battle to raise awareness and break down barriers of myth surrounding epilepsy?
- keen to lend your support to help improve epilepsy services across the UK?
If the answer is yes to any of these questions, then membership of Epilepsy Action is most definitely for you!
For just £17 a year (£11 reduced rate) you will become part of the largest member-led epilepsy charity and benefit from up to the minute epilepsy news and information.
What you will get as part of your membership:
- welcome pack, and
- plastic membership card (choose an epilepsy ID card with emergency contact number or a plain membership card)
- FREE personal accident insurance (upgradeable at extra cost)
- exclusive member magazine, Epilepsy Today, six times a year
- members only area of website including a searchable index of Epilepsy Today articles and downloadable copies of old issues
- discounts on conferences, information leaflets and merchandise
- 10 per cent discount on travel insurance*
And if all that wasn’t enough, you will be helping Epilepsy Action at the same time! Your membership will be giving Epilepsy Action a bigger voice to lobby for better medical care and represent everyone with epilepsy in the UK.
So why not join today? We’d love to welcome you on board!
* Discount on travel insurance applies to Epilepsy Action's travel policy in association with InsureandGo and is applicable on the base cost before any applicable premium for health conditions
Epilepsy Helpline
- UK freephone 0808 800 5050
- International +44 113 210 8850
- Email: helpline@epilepsy.org.uk
- Txt msg: 07797 805 390 info
- Live online: Tuesdays and Thursdays 1230-1330 UK time
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Epilepsy Action blog
Comments
I am on the forum as carer and I would like to join Epilepsy Action it states that it is £17 00 a year or £11 pounds on benefit.
My question is I am on carer's allowance and no other benefit I care for my mom but due to giddy ness I am advised not also to work I have a disabled bus pass but I am not handicapped and I have a leisure card which I pay £1 for instead of £27 would I be entitled to have the membership at the reduced rate or would I have to pay £17?
thankyou jmmahay
i have a 11 year old son he's been having seizures since he was 1 he's had 2 operations they haven't helped at all. we really don't know what to do next need any information on helping with what we can do to stop the seizures please leave a message here.
thanks ruff.
hey my names tanya i no its not easy haveing epilepsy trust me i no to be honsest im pritty ashamed of myself because at one time i came home from sckool and i started to cook some noodles prawn to be exact and i woke up stuck to the floor not knowing what had happend until i got up walked in the front room and stared at the mirror i had two deep holes in my stomach from ware id been cooking myself i was rushed up to notingham hospis on gas and air because lincoln hospis couldnt do anything about it i had skin grafs done and now i consider my self a freek and on christmas day i had new stratners and now i have a big burn on my arm from ware i was laid on them see im lucky in tht way im always ending up in problems like this you dont want to no the rest trust me and i keep on haveing blank outs and going funny it hurts to no i am who i am and if i had one wish it would be to change everything about me i was diagnosed when i was 12 i was called an atention secer because i kept on stairing up into space untill i had my first fit tht changed well sorry for this long msg i wont put the rest thnx for reading xx tanya
My son is 18 years old. When he was born we were told he had some form of brain damage due to the aspiration of michonium in the birth canal, they did not know how severe or how it would show. We took him home and for the next 11 months he progressed like a normal baby. At the age of 11 months I was giving him a bath and all of the sudden he jerked forward and hit his head on the bottom of the tub. He did this several more times and I became concerned that something was wrong. We called his doctor and made an appointment. Over that weekend he developed a fever and we brought him to the ER. The doc on call told he was fine and was just unbalanced due to fluid in the ears, So we brought him home and things just got worse. We eventually took him to Sioux Falls to the ER and that was were they told us that our son was having seizures. From this point on we went to many Dr. in Sioux Falls as well as Rochester MN. All they could tell us was he was having seizures. So we tried all different types of meds and none would totally control the siezures. It was heartbreaking, our poor baby was just not the same happy baby he had been. Over the years he seemed to be doin a little better and was doing well in his classroom at school, he was in the rescourse room part-time and mainstreamed part-time. Ath the age of 8 1/2 he had his first grand mal seizure, what a horrific expierience. From that point on he tends to have 3 to 5 a year. He now has the VNS implanted, currently on the 2nd one which seems to be much better than the first. We had also been told he has a syndrome but to this date they are not sure which, he has been tested for many but all tests have been negative. I am currently doing research for a paer for a course I am taking and have chose to do mine on Epilepsy, to my great surprise I came across this page and as I read through it a light came on in my head.....what if this is the unnamed syndrome that my son has?! I am filled with so much hope that just maybe we finally found it, not that his diagnosis would be changed, but just to know. So I am going armed to his next appointment with my lap top in tow to dicuss this with his Dr..
i thinnk wat u doin is ace