Stopping driving and telling the DVLA or DVA - Epilepsy Action
If you have a seizure of any kind, you must stop driving and tell the DVLA. You can surrender your licence or apply online with an FEP1 form, but be aware of the consequences of each option.
Epilepsy medicines - Epilepsy Action
Learn about the different types, uses and side effects of epilepsy medicines, also known as anti-seizure medications or anti-epileptic drugs. Find out how to take them, switch them and manage them safely.
Sleep seizures - Epilepsy Action
Sleep seizures can happen any time you’re asleep, whether it’s during the night or a day time nap. They can be caused by different types of epilepsy syndromes, medicines, or other factors. Learn how to recognise, manage, and reduce the risk of sleep seizures and their impact on your health.
First aid - Epilepsy Action
Learn how to help someone having a seizure, whether it's tonic-clonic, focal, absence, myoclonic, tonic or atonic. Find out about status epilepticus, emergency medicine, epilepsy identity and online first aid training.
Tonic-clonic seizures - Epilepsy Action
Tonic-clonic seizures are the type of epileptic seizure most people recognise. They affect both sides of the brain and cause loss of consciousness, muscle stiffness, jerking and breathing problems. Learn more about the symptoms, causes, first aid and recovery of tonic-clonic seizures.
Dissociative (non-epileptic) seizures - Epilepsy Action
Dissociative seizures are not caused by electrical activity in the brain, but by psychological or emotional factors. Learn about the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, treatment and support for dissociative seizures.
Absence seizures - Epilepsy Action
Absence seizures are a type of generalised onset seizure that affect both sides of your brain. They can cause you to stop what you are doing for a few seconds, or have slight movements or floppy muscles. Learn more about typical and atypical absences, and how to help someone during an absence seizure.
Status epilepticus and emergency treatment - Epilepsy Action
Status epilepticus is when a seizure lasts too long or when you have one seizure after another without recovering. It is a medical emergency that can happen with any type of seizure, including tonic-clonic seizures. Learn how to prevent, recognise and treat status epilepticus.
Photosensitive epilepsy - Epilepsy Action
Learn about photosensitive epilepsy, a type of epilepsy triggered by flashing or flickering lights or patterns. Find out how to test for it, treat it and avoid seizure triggers.
Childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) - Epilepsy Action
Childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) is a common epilepsy syndrome affecting young children. Children with CAE have absence seizures, which cause a brief loss of awareness, several times a day.