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Re: Epilepsy

Author: zhangray4
Date: 2018-02-04 21:25

A couple advices for your student:

1. It is so easy to miss a dose, especially in the beginning. It becomes even harder when your normal schedule is altered a lot so you are distracted from taking your med. If you miss 1 dose, you'll most likely be ok. But if you miss multiple doses consecutively, that leads to trouble. It happened to me in 9th grade when I was at All State. I forgot to take my meds, and on the car trip back, my dad went to get some coffee at Starbucks and I ordered a frappuccino (technically I wasn't supposed to drink it since it had a little bit of caffeine, and that increases brain activity). And it happened.

2. The pills work by reducing your brain activity to prevent seizures from happening. But it makes you tired. To compensate for that, you must get a lot of sleep. So for example, last year as a junior, 5 out of my 6 classes were AP courses (the other one was band). I still regret doing that last year, as it was very stressful. Despite this though, I still managed to go to bed before 11pm and get up at 6:30 am. It's always tempting to stay up late to talk with friends since most teens go to sleep past midnight, but you just can't do that. Epilepsy forces you to have a good sleeping pattern.

-- Ray Zhang

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