Epilepsy and Driving

Can epilepsy patients drive? Do they drive? Should they? What if they have a seizure? What are the rules, and who sets them? Do neurologists play a role?

Well-known neurologist Dr. Robert Fisher, an expert on epilepsy and driving, sheds light on what the situation is, what the rules are, and where it's headed.

Dr. Fisher is Director of the Epilepsy Center at Stanford University Medical Center and previous Editor-in-Chief of Epilepsia magazine.

Please forward this video to others who may find it useful. Part of the "Epilepsy: Knowledge is Power" series donated by the Epilepsy Foundation of Northern California.

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Education

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• Epilepsy
• EFNC
• seizure
• drive
• driving
• law
• license
• Stanford
• Epilepsia
• neurologist

[Skating18ify]

I have Epilepsy but I'm not aloud to drive until someone takes me places. Sometimes it makes me upset :(

[VipericVampire]

@hamster700 Hazer? lol...

[hamster700]

put hazer warning lights on

[neuronerdify]

Sounds like your employer has provided you grounds for a wrongful termination suit.

[travloo]

I have had 4 partial complex seizures in the last 3 weeks. Last week I had to hand in my drivers license in Australia is is minimum of 3 years seizure free, before I can try and get it back :( The day after that I had a call from my work to inform me that the management think it's best I don't come back to work unless I am "cured" because it doesn't look good in front of the clients for me to have a seizure.(only had 1 at work anyway) I am devastated.

[serbmex24]

That is my Doctor! he is so amazing! I love him!

[Badwsky]

[Begin] I volunteered to give up my driving completely. I don't want to kill other people. Auras can be just as bad as full seizures resulting in the car going out of control. Thinking back, I realize now that I was likely having absence seizures years before my revealing grand mal. [Cont]

[Badwsky]

{Cont from] It is socially devastating as much as my having to retire early even though I lived 3 blocks from work. I was having seizures even going out to lunch walking 5 blocks away. I can only go outside when I feel "right". I now changed my license from a driving one do one just for ID. I felt it was a responsible thing to do even though I do have a good amount of warning time before an "event". I simply as scared to death of driving as I am of swimming, climbing or skiing.