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Hey guys my name is Brad, I live in a city thats about 20 minutes away from Niagara Falls. And yeah, I've had epilepsy for about 3 years now.
Now my "battle" with this defect began 3 years ago on a walk home from my friends house after a night of playing NHL 09. I was heading back to my house when I awoke on the side of the road, bleeding my hands, mouth and knees. Turns out a woman on the side the road had driven by and seen me comvulsing so she immediately called 911. I went to the hospital, they cleaned all my wounds all that hospital jazz and sent me on my way.
One year later almost to the day (361 days to be exact) since my last seizure, my friends and I were sitting outside playing Risk when my second seizure happened. I awoke laying on the ground, roughly 10-15 feet away from where I was sitting, again bleeding and the ambulance was on its way. I had no idea who these people around me were, I couldnt recognize voices or anything.. but eventually it all came back to me. Since this incident I had them almost consistently every 6 months for the next 2 years. My Neurologist put me on this medication called Tegretol, its to help prevent and slow down seizures. I suppose its helped considering they could be more frequent.
Now I have always wanted to be a pro gamer. I began watching pro melee back in 2008 and I've wanted to do it incredibly bad since then. I asked my doctor if it was even safe for me to play video games, be near strobe lights and all that stuff. According to my Neurologist, my epilepsy is caused by stress. It has very little to no relation to lights, games etc. Infact, he told me only 3% of seizures are caused by Videos Games. The reason for my stress caused Seizures is because of a birth defect, a pinched nerve I've had since birth, and until 3 years ago, my body was unable to send enough energy to this part of the brain to force an overload.
The reason why Im writing this is because I know that some people are afraid to get into pro gaming while having this defect, when really you may not have anything to fear. Yes at any given minute I could wake up on a random place, bleeding, disorientated, a total mess for lack of a better term. But I atleast know that I can do something I love and know its not killing me (In more ways than the average person).
So there is more to my story, I've had a seizure every 6 months for the last while, except the one I had this past Sunday was the first in 9 months, which was when I had my presciption up'd to 300mgs a day.
So how has Epilepsy effected my goal of becoming a true pro? Not at all.
If you have questions or want to hear more stories, just post them here, I'll be glad to respond
Hey guys my name is Brad, I live in a city thats about 20 minutes away from Niagara Falls. And yeah, I've had epilepsy for about 3 years now.
Now my "battle" with this defect began 3 years ago on a walk home from my friends house after a night of playing NHL 09. I was heading back to my house when I awoke on the side of the road, bleeding my hands, mouth and knees. Turns out a woman on the side the road had driven by and seen me comvulsing so she immediately called 911. I went to the hospital, they cleaned all my wounds all that hospital jazz and sent me on my way.
One year later almost to the day (361 days to be exact) since my last seizure, my friends and I were sitting outside playing Risk when my second seizure happened. I awoke laying on the ground, roughly 10-15 feet away from where I was sitting, again bleeding and the ambulance was on its way. I had no idea who these people around me were, I couldnt recognize voices or anything.. but eventually it all came back to me. Since this incident I had them almost consistently every 6 months for the next 2 years. My Neurologist put me on this medication called Tegretol, its to help prevent and slow down seizures. I suppose its helped considering they could be more frequent.
Now I have always wanted to be a pro gamer. I began watching pro melee back in 2008 and I've wanted to do it incredibly bad since then. I asked my doctor if it was even safe for me to play video games, be near strobe lights and all that stuff. According to my Neurologist, my epilepsy is caused by stress. It has very little to no relation to lights, games etc. Infact, he told me only 3% of seizures are caused by Videos Games. The reason for my stress caused Seizures is because of a birth defect, a pinched nerve I've had since birth, and until 3 years ago, my body was unable to send enough energy to this part of the brain to force an overload.
The reason why Im writing this is because I know that some people are afraid to get into pro gaming while having this defect, when really you may not have anything to fear. Yes at any given minute I could wake up on a random place, bleeding, disorientated, a total mess for lack of a better term. But I atleast know that I can do something I love and know its not killing me (In more ways than the average person).
So there is more to my story, I've had a seizure every 6 months for the last while, except the one I had this past Sunday was the first in 9 months, which was when I had my presciption up'd to 300mgs a day.
So how has Epilepsy effected my goal of becoming a true pro? Not at all.
If you have questions or want to hear more stories, just post them here, I'll be glad to respond
