It sounds like a very difficult and frustrating time for you.
When your employer became aware of your seizures, they have a duty to do a risk assessment. They do have to take health and safety into account. But they should weigh up all the facts about your epilepsy very carefully. For example, if you have a pattern to your seizures and how likely it is that you will have another one.
If occupational health can justify their reasoning for you not to carry on in you role as a safety engineer, as long they look at reasonable adjustment, they will be working within the Equality Laws. You could ask your employer to put a time scale on when they will review your situation.
As you are still having seizures, are you being seen by an epilepsy specialist so they can review your treatment and look at other possible reasons for your seizures to still be happening? They may suggest trying a different epilepsy medicine or alter your existing medicine dosage. If you have tried various types of epilepsy medicines, it may be the specialist could look into other treatment options for you.
If you are not under a specialist, you will need to ask your family doctor to refer you. This would usually be to a neurologist. The ideal would be to someone with a specialist interest in epilepsy, as there are many different neurological conditions, and neurologists tend to specialise in different ones.
If it will help to talk to us about how you are feeling, please feel free to phone the Epilepsy Action freephone helpline 0808 800 5050. Our helpline is open Monday to Friday, 8.30am until 5.30pm.
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Starting my third year of seizures
Focal motor seizure disorder
No Support…
Diagnosed at 61
