AS THE voice of epilepsy and representative of national charity Epilepsy Action in St Helens, we’d like to let your readers to know about the charity’s new Seize Control campaign.

It provides support for people with epilepsy who still experience seizures.

Having first hand experience of epilepsy, we know that frequent seizures can have a huge impact on a person’s health and well being.

About 1,500 people in St Helens have had epilepsy diagnosed.

Of these, around half continue to experience seizures. Epilepsy Action estimates that with the right treatment more than 250 more could become seizure free.

For others, the right treatment could help reduce seizure frequency or minimise treatment side effects and improve quality of life dramatically.

We’re supporting Epilepsy Action’s Action campaign alongside the Royal College of General Practitioners, to help more people in St Helens become seizure free.

It offers tools and information to help people to request a treatment review and find out more about different treatments. These include a one-off magazine, charting the real-life journeys of eight people with epilepsy.

Find out more at epilepsy.org.uk/seizecontrol or by calling the local support group. We meet in the Millennium Centre lounge, Bickerstaffe Street, St Helens on the first Tuesday of the month, 11am to 12.30pm.

Call 01744 630844 or email saintstuart2@virginmedia.com for more.

Stuart Woodyer, St Helens Epilepsy Support group