Mm, you're 16, you're on the road to clean sailing. Just get your A-levels, with good grades, and do as much research on the process and requirements and such as you can.
Thing is about the cause; I have what's called "idiopathic" epilepsy - there is no known cause. The medical knowledge just doesn't exist to detemine that yet, it's the same for most people with epilepsy, a mystery. The seizures appear to be completely random - although this medication has stopped them from happening, and hopefully I will come off it and they will remain gone. As far as I recall, the last EEG I had was completely normal. It never used to be.
The only thing that we have found to influence it is when I have a temperature/fever - made it more likely. Also, in one particularly curious incident, I'm scared !!!!less of blood tests like I think I said earlier, I was in an epilepsy hospital (nice place actually) and had to have a blood test done at 7:30am, before I'd had my medication. I felt like I was going to faint, but instead of fainting I had a seizure. Never had anything like that before, it was really weird - and that was the last seizure I ever had.
I used to have it really seriously, anywhere from a seizure every day to every week, and they would usually knock me out for the count for 3 days - terrible migraine, bedbound, etc. It was terrible. I now live an entirely normal life, bar the fact that I have to take tablets every day and I can't drink alcohol cos the meds affect my liver and it gives me horrible stomachache - but I hate the stuff anyway so I don't care. So it looks promising I have to say.
The class 1 medical involves eyesight right? I can't have that go on record if I have any chance at all, which is the only problem. I was figuring it might be a wiser idea to wait until I'm 21, in which case I will have been off the medication for a while, and can have laser surgery. Then I can go and get the medical. What do you think?