{"id":11053,"date":"2019-03-27T14:24:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T17:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainn.org.br\/?p=11053"},"modified":"2019-06-25T16:17:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T19:17:50","slug":"purple-day-combate-estigma-e-conscientiza-sobre-a-epilepsia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainn.org.br\/en\/purple-day-combate-estigma-e-conscientiza-sobre-a-epilepsia\/","title":{"rendered":"’Purple day’ combats stigma and raises awareness on epilepsy"},"content":{"rendered":"Unicamp produces video on Purple Day and interviews researchers from BRAINN.<\/em>
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March 27th 2019\u00a0 |\u00a0 originally published at Jornal da Unicamp<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\nT<\/span>he first epileptic seizure that Professor Ism\u00eania Oliveira lived happened in the adult phase, when she was 21 and while she slept. “My family woke up when I was struggling in bed and foaming a lot through my mouth. I remained unconscious and only woke up when I was almost at the hospital”, recalls Ism\u00eania about the convulsions that, from that day on, would become more frequent and constant.<\/p>\n

“I had up to four seizures a day. They made me tired and sleepy. It was impossible to keep up with the routine. My performance at the university was beginning to fall”, says the teacher, whose quality of life only resumed balance after surgical treatment, about a year and a half ago. “After the surgery I did not have any more seizures. I can come and go safely, with the certainty that I will not be more vulnerable in the face of a crisis. You have to face epilepsy head on, with optimism and persistence, without ever giving up treatment, although it often seems that the medication is not having an effect”, she says.<\/p>\n