Hi and while I'm excited to welcome you here, it's always something that makes me sad someone else has to come here. I am sure you will gather tons of information as well as support (which helps out a lot) during your stay here.

I can understand the insurance issue as I'm currently having problems with that myself, and actually (ironically) have been out of work since my last big seizure in May of '06!

In many cases, including my own, being 'newly' diagnosed - it seems the more you learn the more you realize this may have been going on a lot longer than what you originally though. I overlooked many symptoms and took them as aging, having 'brain farts' and other things. Heck, I didn't even know the dangers of frequent cluster headaches and/or migraines. I just learned yesterday treating my headaches with caffeine is bad (it's not a seizure trigger for me).

All I can suggest right now until learning more about you (which I hope to), is while you're not insured or under insured maybe you can try some of the more natural approaches or try the diets other sufferers have tried to control seizures. That hasn't worked for me personally, but many people will stand by the keto diet, gluten free and some other natural things. You should also keep a seizure journal and even when you just feel 'funny' put that in your journal. You want to always write down what you did up to an hour before your seizure (what you ate, if you were watching tv, working out, etc.) as this may assist you in finding seizure triggers so that you can avoid them when able. If you check your journal and see you had for example, soda within 15 minutes of your seizures several times - try to eliminate soda and see how it goes (or coffee, tea, using the computer or whatever it was).

My doctor said up to an hour because of foods, and 15 minutes for everything else. Some doctors may use other times. I just use an hour for everything.

Some additional journal tips and epilepsy information can be found in this thread:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread198.html

Keep your head up and stay safe!