Thank you all for your responses it was very kind of you to take time out of your day to respond to me.

I still haven't taken the medication. I'm afraid to. Well I'm afraid to without asking questions first and the general practitioner nurse that gave me the meds wasn't able to answer a lot of my questions and dodged them so I'm waiting to start taking the meds until I see my neurologist on May 6th. I'm going to write down all my questions so I don't forget any and ask away. My questions are regarding if medication is the right route for me at this time since my full blown seizures are so spaced out. Apparently I have the simple partial (I think is what it's called) pretty regularly but have lived the last 21 years with them so I can tolerate them easy. My drop seizures and grand mals only typically happen every 1-3 years. Now I'm not saying I will never take the meds if I need them but I just got married and right now my husband and I are going the natural family planning route. We're not trying for a baby but we're not using any form of birth control but the natural family planning and I'm new to it so I may end up pregnant (which we are both fine with) and starting meds when I may possibly be pregnant concerns me, especially if they are not the safest meds to take for pregnancy. So I'm going to ask what is safe to take pregnancy wise. I also want to know why they concluded that I have epilepsy. What was shown on the EEG to confirm it and if there could be any other answer for why it came up positive. I am a frequent marijuanna user (I use numerous times a day but use very small ammounts for appetite and anxiety but I don't like to get high so I don't use enough to impact my thinking or behavior or even feel it) so I'd like to know if the hit of marijuana I used about an hour before the appointment could effect it. I also want to know if the visual distortions are related or unrelated to epilepsy as I had one during the EEG and have them frequently. So perhaps that is what the EEG was picking up. I've come to accept the diagnosis but I just want to ask questions before I commit to medication for this. I want to know, if I take the meds and it's not epilepsy if it could create seizures. I have a lot of questions and feel like they should be answered before taking a big step.

So in one week I have my appointment and will be able to ask all my questions and talk to the neurologist and start on the medications possibly.