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Mom was recently diagnosed with epilepsy at age 53. does this seem reasonable? i thought epilepsy usually starts during childhood/teen years?
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Epilepsy: Epilepsy at older age can be due to a number of causes such as head trauma, intra cranial hemorrhage, vacular lesions such as aneurysms, strokes, tumurs, infections such as viral, bacterial or parasitic, abscesses etc. A complete evaluation & work by a neurologist is needed. Good luck
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