Martyn - Interview 43

Age at Interview: 22

Sex: Male

Age at Diagnosis: 12

Background: Martyn is 22 and full-time university student. He is single. Ethnic background / nationality: White British.

Brief outline:Martyn was diagnosed with epilepsy at 12 and he's had both tonic-clonic and absence seizures. He has not had a tonic-clonic seizure since he changed onto Keppra (levetiracetam) and Epilim (sodium valproate).

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It seemed at one point I was always injured, I always had a burn or, a cut. I don't know how they happened but I'd put the kettle on one day and then came around and was burnt all down my body I'd put scalding water on myself. I don't really know how it was crazy, I was standing up so it meant I must have had, sort of minimal grand mal seizures where my head blocked, somehow I managed to pick up the kettle which had just boiled and pour it down my arm. I came to not really knowing what was going on, something wasn't right. I didn't realise it was pain until I looked down and saw like everything, so I jumped straight in the cold shower. And then there's just countless examples, I'd wake up I'd had one and I went through a period of drinking loads of tea, obviously you need boiling [chuckle] water for that. I came round, my face burnt this side because I'd had a fit and ended up in, knocking over a glass of, knocking over a cup of tea and having the fit in the boiling water on the ground [laughs]. It was just like really ridiculous.