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One moment you can be completely fine, carrying on with your day, and in a split second it can all change. You convulse, you lose control and you begin to act quite differently.
If this scenario only occurred to you once, you’ve likely experienced a seizure. But if it becomes a reoccurring event, you could have epilepsy.
It can be frightening for you and those around you when you begin shaking and losing consciousness – and that is what makes epilepsy so serious.
Epilepsy is neurological disorder which means it affects the nervous system. Seizures happen because there is a disruption in the neurons when attempting to communicate. The Mayo Clinic reports that one in every 26 Americans will suffer from a seizure disorder making epilepsy the fourth most common neurological disorder.