Treatment with epilepsy medicines
Everything you need to know about epilepsy treatment. Also a list of all epilepsy medicines, how they affect your bones, how they affect contraception and the Yellow Card Scheme
Getting the right teatment for your epilepsy
Guidelines and initiatives for getting the right care and treatment for your epilepsy
The NICE Guideline, the NHS Constitution, the Care Quality Commission and Choose and Book
What to do if you're unhappy about your treatment
Ways of making a complaint
Other ways of treating epilepsy
Brain surgery, deep brain stimulation, trigeminal nerve stimulation, vagus nerve stimulation, the ketogenic diet and complementary therapies
Getting the same version of your epilepsy medicine every time
Why it’s important to get the same version of your epilepsy medicine, generic prescribing and parallel imports
Complementary treatments
Includes information about herbal medicines, supplements and essential oils
Status epilepticus
Information about what status epilepticus is, why it’s a medical emergency and how to treat it
Emergency treatment for seizures that last a long time
Emergency treatment, individual plans and consent
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