Posted 6/18/2013 1:53 PM (GMT 0)
Not only am I new to this site, but I'm also new to epilepsy. Still, I feel your pain. I love helping out at work and at home as much as I can, and I try to hide my symptoms because it hurts my pride a little to be weak and unable to function... so maybe it's my fault for one: not showing how sick I really feel sometimes, and two: not having the vocabulary or knowledge/experience necessary to fully explain what's going on. Explaining the symptoms to my primary care doctor is very hard because I can only say the phrase, "waves of electric pain from my head, through my neck and spine, and into the muscles in my extremities" so many times... and I know that doesn't fully explain what I'm feeling, but I can't think of any other way to say it.