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increased senstivity to drugs after surgery
Tue, 03/27/2007 - 15:26Topic: Surgery and Devices
Hi everyone,
My 10 yr. old son Gabe had a R. frontal resection for cortical dysplasia on Feb. 9th of 07. He has done extremely well. He was home 2 days after the resection and back to school 2 weeks later. So far he has had a few szs. within the first week and then has had 1 aura since then. What I am noticing though is that he is beginning to get tired after his meds. and he did complain of blurred vision this a.m. There has been no change in his med. since surgery- it's exactly the same dose as the previous 6 months. I've only noticed these changes when the dose is too high. Just curious if anyone else has experienced an increased sensitivity to meds. after surgery?
Thanks, Cheryl
Comments
Re: Re: increased senstivity to drugs after surgery
Submitted by solis on Thu, 2007-09-13 - 18:34
Hi kmom,
I found this info on frontal lobe surgery and thought I'd post it for you:
http://www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/frontal_lobectomy.html
http://professionals.epilepsy.com/page/surgery_outlook.html
best wishes to you and your son,
~sol
Re: Re: Re: increased senstivity to drugs after surgery
Submitted by kmom on Thu, 2007-09-13 - 16:12
Last pet showed damage on left frontal lobe right across from his CD. It's in the front. Not really near anything but in the general language and behavior area. I thought that was good, but I don't know. Now that we have an undefined area on the pet that is on the left side, we may have to do brain mapping. I don't know if that's better or not. We will find out next wednesday. I'm sorry it's not totally gone for your son. However, it sounds like it's substanitally reduced. Is that treated as success from your neuro. If we had only a few seizures a year we'd be very very happy. kmom