Alina Diniz had been having seizures since the age of 12, but wasn’t diagnosed with epilepsy until her mother filmed her during an episode. This proved a turning point and helped her find the right treatment and medication. She shares her story on International Epilepsy Day
Alina Diniz had to deal with epilepsy for years before she was properly diagnosed. Photo: Gerry Mooney
Think of epilepsy and you likely envision someone lying on the ground having a full-on convulsive seizure. Over 45,000 people in Ireland have epilepsy, a neurological disorder that affects the brain, and results in repeated seizures, yet most know little about it.
In fact there are four types of epilepsy and a total of 21 different types of seizures. With temporal lobe epilepsy, the most common type of focal epilepsy, those with the condition can have several different types of seizures.