The Epilepsy Network (TEN) / News / The REAL Sleeping Beauty: Teenage girl’s severe epilepsy causes her to slip into a deep slumber for up to 20 HOURS a day
The mother of a teenage girl with an extreme form of epilepsy has revealed how the condition can cause her to sleep for up to 20 hours a day.
Emily Rowland, 16, from Georgia in the US, has generalized non-convulsive epilepsy and intractable epilepsy, which means she suffers with extreme lethargy as well as headaches, vomiting and dizziness.
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