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Brain Surgery
Mon, 03/13/2006 - 09:27Comments
Re: Brain Surgery
Submitted by one4gimp on Mon, 2008-06-02 - 14:10
Re: Brain Surgery
Submitted by aussie2006 on Mon, 2008-06-09 - 05:31
Hi,
I had surgery on left temporal lobe /hippocampus on March 1st 2006, I have not had a siezure since , before surgery i was taking 14 tablets a day for epilepsy, I am still coming off the medication because I had been taking them so long but I am currently only taking 6 tablets a day and hope to get it down to about 2 a day.
I initially only intended to have all the preminary testing done and I had no intentions of letting anyone open up my head and mess around with my brain. After all the testing I met the surgeon and that changed everything for me. He told me I had a 70% chance of a cure-, no doctor ever had said I could be cured, a 20% chance of improvement,and 10% chance of, no change or worse off. The surgeon explained that the surgery is less complicated than removing an appendix,and told me he could do it for me the following week,this was a big plus because I didnt have a lot of time to wait , I had knocked back a vacancy twice when I was going for the prelinary testing because I had long periods to wait and think about it.
If you are given the ok for surgery I would strongly reccomend it,any good surgeon would not proceed with surgery if there was a risk to you. It is a life altering operation.
I am still to obtain my drivers licence ,but this cant be done until I have stopped the medication reductions as it is law in Australia that you cannot get a licence whilst coming off anti convulsant medications
It is a big decision and a hard one to make , but what a difference it makes to your life.
I was in a private hospital for 1week then at home recovering a further 6 weeks before returning to work.
Hi,
I had surgery on left temporal lobe /hippocampus on March 1st 2006, I have not had a siezure since , before surgery i was taking 14 tablets a day for epilepsy, I am still coming off the medication because I had been taking them so long but I am currently only taking 6 tablets a day and hope to get it down to about 2 a day.
I initially only intended to have all the preminary testing done and I had no intentions of letting anyone open up my head and mess around with my brain. After all the testing I met the surgeon and that changed everything for me. He told me I had a 70% chance of a cure-, no doctor ever had said I could be cured, a 20% chance of improvement,and 10% chance of, no change or worse off. The surgeon explained that the surgery is less complicated than removing an appendix,and told me he could do it for me the following week,this was a big plus because I didnt have a lot of time to wait , I had knocked back a vacancy twice when I was going for the prelinary testing because I had long periods to wait and think about it.
If you are given the ok for surgery I would strongly reccomend it,any good surgeon would not proceed with surgery if there was a risk to you. It is a life altering operation.
I am still to obtain my drivers licence ,but this cant be done until I have stopped the medication reductions as it is law in Australia that you cannot get a licence whilst coming off anti convulsant medications
It is a big decision and a hard one to make , but what a difference it makes to your life.
I was in a private hospital for 1week then at home recovering a further 6 weeks before returning to work.
Re: Brain Surgery
Submitted by seizure free on Sun, 2008-06-01 - 19:51
Hi,
I fully understand what you are going through, I had brain surgery in '2003. It is my opinion that everyones experiences with surgery differs remarkably - pre-op and post-op. That is why the neurologists tend to not divulge too much informataion.
Ultimately it is your decision to make and yours alone, whatever you decide I wish you the best.
Stuart
Hi,
I fully understand what you are going through, I had brain surgery in '2003. It is my opinion that everyones experiences with surgery differs remarkably - pre-op and post-op. That is why the neurologists tend to not divulge too much informataion.
Ultimately it is your decision to make and yours alone, whatever you decide I wish you the best.
Stuart