Do MS and Epilepsy share a link? I Have Both

Interesting post. I'm 54 and was diagnosed with epilepsy when I was 27. Thankfully my seizures are controlled well with one medication. However, over the past ten years or so I've noticed a variety of symptoms that seem to be worsening: losing my balance a lot, constantly bumping into things (turn a corner and literally hit a wall or desk, etc., reach out for an object and hit it or something else with my hand). My balance is particularly bad late in the day. I have near daily achiness in muscles (varies) and joint pain. My vision sometimes gets blurry with no rhyme or reason. Brain fog and memory decline increasing somewhat quickly. Bad headaches.

I'm in good shape and pretty athletic, but I will lose my balance like I'm going to fall even from simply pivoting to turn while walking or picking something up from the ground. I have some mild peripheral neuropathy which might explain the balance stuff but it seems like more than that. I'm curious what your symptoms were/are?

My father had MS for 36 years after diagnosis. He occaisionally would have a seizure which the doctor's attributed to the urinary tract infections that he continually had. He had a major convulsion episode once that they said was a stroke. Some years later they said he didn't have a stroke. I still wonder exactly what was going on with him. He passed away in 1994 at the age of 74.

I have always suspected that there was some type of connection between Epilepsy and MS. My dad had 4 older sisters and 3 of them had MS. He had one younger sister. He was the only boy. Then my dad developed Epilepsy as an adult. He was 44 years old when he started having 'episodes'. It took 7 long years to get a proper diagnosis. Out of the 6 children, the oldest and the youngest were the only two healthy ones. Very interesting post. Everyone has past away but the youngest one.

It`s so hard to fight alone against such a huge problem. But you all are great people. Thank you so much. God bless you all!

My daughter is 5 years old and has been healthy, and has been developing at a normal rate. I heard a loud thud. I found my daughter on the floor. There was vomit on the bed and my daughter was on the floor. It lasted 15 minutes. It was so scary. she was jerking very violently, and his eyes were rolling in the back of his head. It was horrible. No one should have to see their child like that, my doctor is saying she's had seizures. she had an mri ,an EEG,they did a spinal tap. After returning from the hospital, my daughter experienced vomiting, I could not bear to see my daughter going through this problem at the early age of her life. I read a lot of fake testimonies at blogs, facebook and website of people that was cured from seizure with the help of a herbal doctor I have even been scammed severally, I explain to my friend about my daughter symptom and she told me that i shouldn't worry, she gave me a contact of a doctor called lawson I met Lawson in Chicago and i contact him. I Explain about my daughter symptom, I made an order of his medicine.. I followed his instruction, His medicine has change my daughter health in less than 3 month she is totally free from seizures and vomiting, my daughter is cured from seizure.

In 93/94 I found out that I had epilepsy. After having a stroke... at my Brain Doc's office...thank god that his office was in a hospital... where I woke up and after awhile waiting for my Brain Doc to come in... For he to tell me.. the MRI showed that I have lesions on my brain and I'm here to tell you that you have MS. And that there are 3 ladies to come talk to you.... Really... to today.. I don't know where I am at with any of this other than I'm getting a wheelchair for my bad days of pain. My seizures or MS does not run through my family tree... My dad was under pesticide in Vietnam. I'm in totally loss of where I'm out.... On the stage of MS...

A possible cause, common to epilepsy and MS is cow milk and derived products. See these scientific publications:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1291895
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25394911

Another common cause is aluminum, see:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17086897
https://www.epilepsy.com/learn/professionals/co-existing-disorders/renal-disorders/aluminum-encephalopathy-syndrome

I HAD EPILEPSY FIRST THAN MS

Me too

This is really interesting to me. I was diagnosed with Epilepsy at the age of 19 in 1993. In March of 2019 I went to my Neurologist and told him I was having double vision. He wanted to do a MRI on the brain. He sent me to a MS specialist in Kansas City. She then wanted a Cervical Spine MRI. In July of 2019 I was diagnosed with MS. 26 years. I'm getting ready to start taking medication for the MS. I've had brain surgery in 2004 for the Epilepsy. That fixed most of the problem but was still having the aura's. So in 2013 they implanted a VNS into my chest and that seemed to take care of the majority of the Epilepsy. Haven't had a seizure since September of 2015.

I’ve had MS now for 37 yrs, last yr I’ve had my first Grand Mall Seizure in my sleep, i’m None the wiser, 1st thing I knew I was stripped & in a gurney, the EMT’s told my husband I had 9 more grand Malls in the ambulance. That was 11 months ago, haven’t had another since, been on Keppra. Am I Scared. Absolutely.

How often is ms and epilepsy diagnosed together? I was diagnosed with epilepsy when I was in high school and put on meditation. I have started having vertigo issues which we cannot figure out. I’m wondering if there could be a correlation between the two. Is there? Could I have been diagnosed with epilepsy? Then, years down the road develop ms out of the blue. What is the likelihood that could happen? I have even looking up the possibility, but I am not a doctor and have no idea how to diagnose something like this. I am scared that is something that may happen. What percentage of the world could have something like this?

I have controlled epilepsy. Have glaucoma. Son has MS. Maybe not regular glaucoma but neurodegenerative disorder

I was diagnosed with MS aged 30, and had my first seizure last year, when I was 61. It wasn’t particularly commented on until I had a sudden fainting episode about two weeks ago, when my daughter heard a crash and found me unconscious and seizing on the kitchen floor and immediately called the paramedics. I have never recovered my memory of this seizure. The first thing I remember was being offered a bed bath in the ICU. My sister had epilepsy as a child and developed MS as an adult, and she died aged 56. The thought of the future terrifies me, not the thought of dying, but the thought of my increasing deterioration. I would be good to hear from others who might understand how it feels.