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post op surgery site question

Mon, 04/14/2008 - 11:13

Topic: Surgery and Devices

I had right temporal lobe surgery done in '07, and I'm curious to know if anyone who has had this surgery still have, as I call them, little bumps around the surgery site? Although i feel great and have had no seizures thus far, i wonder if anyone else has these. I know it is because of the screws in the skull. They dont hurt, nor are they bothersome. Its kinda "funky" though running my hand across my temple and feeling it. LOL . Anyone? Becky

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Re: post op surgery site question

Submitted by reba on Wed, 2008-07-23 - 14:44

Thanks for the info! Great to hear about your being seizure free!! Myself, i have been doing great. Yesterday marked 11 months being seizure free! I too am so happy to be able to have a better quality of life. I am doing things that i used to fear. I'm also driving again, and that independence again is so wonderful to have. I thank God everyday for giving me this second chance.

Take care, and God bless, Becky

Re: post op surgery site question

Submitted by roktgirl1967 on Wed, 2008-08-20 - 17:46

Hi. I am the mom of a 12-year-old daughter who had a right temporal lobectomy in Dec '07. She has been seizure-free since...yay! However, we just returned from the hospital following an 8-month follow-up overnight EEG. It came back abnormal, showing spikes during her stage 2 of sleep. She continued sleeping normally throughout the spikes....which aren't classified as a 'seizure', since they were random, and not in a large group....however, just wondering if anyone else has had an abnormal EEG following temp lobectomy and seizure freedom. I am now worried again of impending seizures :(

Re: post op surgery site question

Submitted by hawksnst on Sun, 2010-07-25 - 10:23

Hi, I know this is an old post but I'm curious to see if you are still on this board or what your experience was since this post. My daughter, age 16, had the left temporal lobe resection done in January and has been seizure free. However we went to get her 6 mo post-surgical EEG done and she is showing right frontal spikes now. This is something shes never had. We are trying to figure out if this might be a post-surgical occasional problem, or if it indicates that her sz activity may be ramping up or laying dormant, etc. Any thoughts or info would be so appreciated.

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