I'm in Yakima.  I was ORIGINALLY diagnosed way back in 1972, when I was 12.  I'd been under doctors' care until 1996.  A NEUROLOGIST, yes, a neuro, in Spokane told me that I "did not have, never had had, and never WILL have" epilepsy, and he yanked me off ALL meds overnight.   He said I had hypoglycemia.  He didn't run a new EEG, he based this on my OLD chart notes and EEG reports that had been clean  For 9 years, I was the proverbial "accident waiting to happen" behind the wheel.  Fortunately, that accident never happened. 

In Fall 2005, the "hypoglycemia" got to the point that I wondered if that idiot in Spokane hadn't been wrong and if they weren't seizures.  Within a couple weeks, I got in to see Dr. Sloop, and he put me right back ON meds -- complex partials.  I remember vividly that first conversation, because he mentioned "it may take surgery to get them completely, 100% stopped."  Little did I know.  

I went back to school in January, 2006, and all was well.  Until Friday, October 13th, when I had a grand mal (the only one I'd had since I had febrile seizures as a baby) in a conference.  Two and a half months later, I had epilepsy surgery at UW.  THIS Saturday is a year and a half since the surgery -- and I'm still seizure free.  

I'm completely off the Keppra, and Dr. Sloop said we'll see about stopping the Trileptal at my next appt in December!

Mari