Having a seizure while riding is no fun; I can speak from experience. Was this your first seizure or a breakthrough seizure? Are you epileptic? If your doc has given you a year before driving, that sounds like it's expected that seizures could recur, so I'm going to assume you're talking about an epileptic tonic-clonic/ grand mal seizure. Much of this advice probably applies to absence/ petit mal events as well.

First thing you need to do is figure out if your seizures are predictable. Do they happen at the same time of day? For example, mine can happen in the morning if I've gotten very little sleep. If I feel uncoordinated or tired enough to impair judgment after my shower and shave and breakfast, that's a signal to me to be careful.

If you have an aura before a seizure, then you're very lucky indeed.

People are tired and uncoordinated after a convulsive seizure. To be frank, it looks like I'm drunk after a seizure, at least for a few minutes. Some kindly police and an EMT asked me two questions when they found me after a seizure earlier this year: Have you had anything to drink, and did you have a seizure? (After seeing the mess I made biting my tongue, the EMT said, "yeah, you had a seizure.") So have something that identifies you as epileptic; I went out and bought a MedAlert dog tag after this incident.

I've been epileptic for the majority of my life, so feel free to email me.