[stephnkris]

Hello. I am new here. I have been looking for resources and answers that I want and need before I even see my neurologist. I would like to have these answers to share with him if you can help me. Here is my situation:

I was born with epilepsy and have on/off seizures over the years. I am currently 37 years old. For the most part, I was born with and always had grand-mal seizures when I did have them until I got pregnant. After my pregnancy, they reverted to what I think is petit-mal or some other kind of seizure.

Recently, my daughter's father came back to reconcile with us as a family after 6 months of not being in our lives at all. No contact whatsoever. This reconciliation began in mid-August, 2010. Within one week of his moving back into our lives, my daughter became ill to her stomach and as a parent, taking care of her medical needs, I began suffering migraines so severe it felt like my brain was going to explode. These migraines linger everyday, some days not as bad, but eventually I had a seizure at night, in bed, but while I was awake. I believe it was a petit-mal, eyes open, feeling like my brain was shifting side to side, but I knew it was a seizure. The doctor put me on anti-anxiety medicine for the stress of her father being back and weeks later migraine medicine because the migraines were getting worse. After I finally had the courage 8 weeks later (less than 2 weeks ago) I told him I cannot take the migraines anymore and that I did not think our reconciliation was working. My daughter's illness faded after 6 long agonizing weeks and was diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome caused by severe stress, that the doctors believe was related to her father's re-appearance back into her life. He felt the same way that he is imposing too much stress. I eventually gave in to believe his theory after talking to my own doctor who analyzed things too. Within 5 days of telling him we cannot stay together, the stress was still there but slowly subsiding, I think because I had another seizure while at work, this time feeling different... felt like a boxer knocked my brain to one side and held my brain down while I was trying to fight 'the boxer' to keep my brain upward. So weird. Again, eyes open. My boss does not know this happened. Ironically the one person I called was my daughter's father about my seizure at work. I actually called him while I was having the seizure and was still having it while talking to him. I am confused to know if my migraines that have been lingering since August are slow-riding seizure activity. Can anybody help me with this?