This text should not be taken as medical advice, nor as a diagnostic tool.
This is just my personal experience.

I’ve epilepsy

«So, you fall down to the ground and have convulsions» - «No»

So, How is it then?

Epilepsy is a condition in which, during a seizure, the brain loses control of itself, and there’s a period of uncontrolled neuroelectric activity in the brain, abnormal, therefore the brain stops working as it usually works

How did I learn I have epilepsy?

The triggering event

During 2020 it happened multiple times that I stopped reacting to external stimulus during a couple of minutes, the two most obvious occasions I was with other people around, I didn’t realize it happened, but they did, they called my name, they poked me, they shook me, and I didn’t come back with that. After the second obvious event I went to see a neurologist, during a one-hour session, connected to a electroencephalogram machine she was able to see very clearly I have epilepsy.

What then?

The doctor forbid me from driving, riding my bike, be alone in a situation where losing contact with reality would be a risk. This happened during the COVID pandemic first couple of years, so the impact of that was less bad that it could have been. More analysis happened, I did not have a tumor in my head, I haven’t had an accident that would explain a new condition, there’s nothing to remove or move to fix the condition.

Drugs. A relatively new drug, discovered 25 years ago, that no one knows how it works, literally, reduces the event of out-of-control neuroelectric activity, and then prevent this absence events from happening. After about a year of adjusting the dosage, confirm that the full-disconnection events were gone, I was able to go out again alone, to drive, but not to ride my motorcycle anymore.