This week I was diagnosed with simple partial seizures; because of Thanksgiving plans, they'll be ruling out potential causes, at least the scary ones, this week. . . Anyway, I've had no loss of consciousness, but it occurs to me that if I'm not able to drive a car without some future okay, there may be more significant implications behind becoming an "epileptic," officially. The seizures aren't awful or incapacitating: I've had horrible errors in my spelling of words that I recognize once I see what I've written, chilling feelings of déja vu and an accompanying sense clairvoyance that I had actually assumed must be the beginnings of psychosis, and some vision problems--nothing debilitating, but not nothing.
So anyway, trying to avoid the doctor suspecting that I'm just a neurotic with a pathology textbook, I haven't mentioned that I'll be starting med school next fall; that can come up tomorrow, I guess. Just wondering, then, since I haven't begun to discuss how this diagnosis may affect my life, do any of you have epilepsy, and if so, how might it affect your residency options? Thanks
So anyway, trying to avoid the doctor suspecting that I'm just a neurotic with a pathology textbook, I haven't mentioned that I'll be starting med school next fall; that can come up tomorrow, I guess. Just wondering, then, since I haven't begun to discuss how this diagnosis may affect my life, do any of you have epilepsy, and if so, how might it affect your residency options? Thanks
