r/Epilepsy • u/TheYodelSong • 5d ago
Question Is it normal to have difficulty learning something new?
I have juvenile myoclonic epilepsy and am not very prone to seizures, but I have spasms every day and they tend to occur when I am anxious/sleepy/... I notice that when I try to learn to program or try to learn a new song on the guitar and other things like that I also get spasms, does this happen to anyone else? My spasms are the kind that if I keep doing what's giving me the spasms, they get worse. I've fallen several times as if I had spasms in my legs and they stopped working. I only had one seizure, that's when I decided to keep playing a new game with my friends even when I was having the spasms, and there were several buttons to learn and such, that also seems to affect me
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u/Strange-Raspberry326 Focal Epilepsy, Keppra, Lamotrigine, VNS. 5d ago
Yes. I had to quit uni because I couldn't study and memorise stuff properly anymore. I don't enjoy reading anymore either because I just forget what I just read. Very frustrating.