Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Part I The woman with epilepsy
- 1 Introduction: why we wrote this book
- 2 On being a woman with epilepsy
- 3 The woman with epilepsy: a historical perspective
- 4 Quality of life issues for women with epilepsy
- Part II Epilepsy diagnosis and treatment
- Part III Hormones and the brain
- Part IV Health challenges for women with epilepsy
- Part V Family planning, pregnancy, and parenting
- Part VI Living well with epilepsy
- Appendix: The Epilepsy Foundation's Campaign for Women's Health: bringing help and hope to women with epilepsy
- Index
2 - On being a woman with epilepsy
from Part I - The woman with epilepsy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Part I The woman with epilepsy
- 1 Introduction: why we wrote this book
- 2 On being a woman with epilepsy
- 3 The woman with epilepsy: a historical perspective
- 4 Quality of life issues for women with epilepsy
- Part II Epilepsy diagnosis and treatment
- Part III Hormones and the brain
- Part IV Health challenges for women with epilepsy
- Part V Family planning, pregnancy, and parenting
- Part VI Living well with epilepsy
- Appendix: The Epilepsy Foundation's Campaign for Women's Health: bringing help and hope to women with epilepsy
- Index
Summary
Lisa Lindahl is a member of the Board of Directors of the Epilepsy Foundation, a founder of a successful start-up company (she invented and marketed the first sports bra, the Jogbra), and a woman with epilepsy. Ms Lindahl's efforts were critical to the success of the Epilepsy Foundation's Women with Epilepsy Initiative.
In this chapter, she shares her personal experience and perspective. She discusses what it has been like to live with epilepsy, how she has navigated the medical system, the questions she has asked (and has not always had answered), and how she has become an effective self-advocate. Through Ms Lindahl's voice, you can learn how to be in charge – by getting information, getting noticed, and asking directly for what you need. In Ms Lindahl's thoughtful view, taking responsibility for your own well-being is essential to living well as a woman with epilepsy.
MJMEpilepsy, as experienced by women, is the subject of this book. Why a whole book? Because so many women, girls, and their families have so many questions, and sometimes it seems there are more questions than answers. This is due, in great part, to the fact that there has only recently been information available about why a woman's experience with epilepsy is different from that of a man's. Further, much of the information was difficult for the average person (like me) to locate.
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- Women with EpilepsyA Handbook of Health and Treatment Issues, pp. 7 - 16Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003
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