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How will epilepsy change a teenage girl?
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Teenage epilepsy: Seizures are unpredicable, causing stress--it may be stigmatizing in their peer group--affect relationships--antiseizure meds interfere with birth control--pregnancy in epileptics is more supervised.
Answered 5/21/2016
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