How to Get Help for Seizures

If you suffer from seizures, there are lots of helpful resources available in your community and online. Find a support group, a neurologist or the latest anticonvulsant drug medication.

Instructions

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  Ask your family doctor and pharmacist if they know of any neurologists that they would recommend. Because seizure control is so dependent on medication, pharmacists and neurologists interact a great deal, discussing drug levels and side effects. Pharmacists are minutely aware of which doctors are prescribing the most effective anticonvulsant drug regimens.

• 2

  Call each neurologist's office and talk with the doctor's nurse. Explain that you need a doctor who will help you to manage your seizures. If the nurse isn't welcoming and supportive, consider calling the next neurologist.

• 3

  Talk to other people who suffer from seizures. Get the names of their neurologists, and call any doctors whose names keep coming up.

• 4

  Go to the American Academy of Neurology's Web site (aan.com) to find a neurologist and/or find out more about neurology.

• 5

  Log on to Epilepsy.com for Web-based information sharing and discussions.