Well hello my name is Sophia, i'm from the UK and i have over eight disabilities and my question is, how does your other disability/ies affect you and your Epilepsy, and also if you have a seizure/s does it make your other disability/ies worse before and/or after?

Like i said i have over 8 disabilities and the following are;

1) Aspergers Syndrome, (a form of Autism).

2) A.D.H.D,

3) Bipolar Disorder,

4) Chronic Asthma,

5) Dyslexia,

6) Dyscalculia,

7) Dyspraxia,

Which gets worse before and after a seizure.

8) Epilepsy (pretty obvious since i'm on an epilepsy site lol)

I have allot of different forms of Simple partials seizures. Complex partial, Gran-Mal (tonic clonic), Absence (Peti-Mal), Myoclonic seizures, A-tonic seizures and Clonic Seizures. I am very prone to Non Convoulsive Status Epilepticus which is very annioying lol. I have Reading Epilepsy (a rare form of a reflex Epilepsy) and also some un-diagnosed other forms of reflex epilepsies too.

9) Server Hyper Mobility Syndrome, (H.M.S),

I am double jointed in my wrists and fingers, elbows, shoulders, knees they go 40% back from what a normal persons knees would go. My hips are out of line too. My Ankles/feet turn more then 180 degrees back if i want them too (its a good freaky party trick lol), but i do walk like a pigeion all the time and i normally walk about 30 degrees inwards, i cannot help walking like that and this is because my brain has no clue and control were my feet are, and allot of the time i don't even realise i'm doing it! So, i'm buggered because i can't were high heels!!! Dam!

I noticed a few weeks back that everytime i had any seizure/s activity, that my feet epecially the right one goes even more inwards to about 90 degrees and this last for maybe a couple of hours to a few days. I really find that interesting actually.

10) Suppressed Immune System, caused by all the medication i'm on epescially the AED's.

11) Mildly Lactose intolerant,

12) Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS).

I don't have periods that often actually it's abit rare lol. Which is good because it's one less thing to deal with lol, but when i do have them my seizures get x4 worse just before and a little bit better during the week.

I've also noticed that if i do have a period it happens coming up to a full moon. A very good doctor and also a dear friend of mine once said and she totally belives and sticks to this; She explained why some people are more prone to having more stress, mood swings, behavior issues epescially people with mental and some form of learning disabilities and people that have seizures, get worse leading up and in a full moon phase. This is because the moon controls the sea's tide's right?... Well as we are made up of more the 75% of water, the moon comes a little bit closer to earth, causing more gavitational pull on the people and the enviorenment, therefor changing the way our body works.. She also said it can mess around with some people hormones causing a chemical inbalance and that is how things happen more around that time.

13) Scoliosis (Twisted spine in three places!... very painful lol !!!)

Because of my Scoliosis and my Hyper Mobility Syndrome i have to take VERY strong medications like high dosages of Bu-Trans Patches and also high dosages of Tramadol also known as Zydol. Causing my seizure tolerence to go down, The Tramadol is the worst out of all of them because it is known to cause seizures in high dosges in people without Epilepsy, so you can imaging what it is like for me.

It causes my Myoclonic's to be more frequent and closer together, my Absence seizures to become allot stronger and longer and again more frequent; also it has caused another seizure type to change... In the sence that my A-tonic seizures (drop attacks) only normally involve my head and my arms, but the other day i was taking some DVD's back to blockbusters about 3 miles away from where i live and as walked out of the shop, i had a A-tonic seizure and fell straight on my ass. Which litrally lasted a few seconds and then after about a 30 seconds i fell over to the side as my head dropped, the shear weight of my head makes me fall to the side sometimes thank god i was still sitting on the pavment, the only thing was it was raining!!!

After, people kept fussing over me and trying to ring an ambulance and i was like i'm fine honestly, i'm going for the bus now and i'll be ok. it happened again just as i was getting ready for bed followed by lots of myoclonic and absence seizures together.

You may ask why am i putting my self through this and keep on taking it, if is making my seizures to become worse? Well it is because I have tried over about 30 different pain medications in my life and i'm only 19 (going on 20 soon lol) and these two are the first ones to work and help me, i get used to all medicines very very easierly, and seem to built up a tolerence it them. I have even tried lots of different anti-depressents that are also used to treat people in moderate to server pain, and as you all know allot of them are very unsutable to take when you suffer from Epilepsy or a seizure disorder. Again non of them worked and everyone of them caused even more seizures then the Tramadol does. I am very carefully and i am thinking about seeing and trying to change pain medications, but as you can see it's a bit of a toughy!!!

14) Very bad Insomnia, i hate that fact that i can't sleep dispite trying many forms of sleeping tablets!

So as you can see I've got allot of disabilities and problems, so you may wonder how are all these connected to each other?

Well all those disabilities (apart for the asthma and the suppressed immune system), are connected to My Aspergers Syndrome and my A.D.H.D.

The Imsomnia, PCOS, Dyspraxia, Dsylexia, Dyscalculia, Aspergers Syndrome and A.D.H.D are connected to the Epilepsy. The Hyper Mobility Syndrome (H.M.S) is also part of the Scoliosis and the PCOS is also connected to the H.M.S.

So it all goes round in a circle lol

I DON'T EXPECT YOU TO WRITE A MINI ESSAY LIKE I HAVE DONE LOL.

BUT IT WOULD BE REALLY NICE TOO HEAR FROM YOU GUYS AND SHARE EXPIERNCES AND WHATNOT :).

Well i'll better be going, stay safe everyone and live life to the full hehe :P!!!!!

PEACE XxXxX