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Surgery right temp lobe 07/10/07 I'm getting nervous
Fri, 06/08/2007 - 22:36Topic: Surgery and Devices
I have complex partial seizures. Surgery is coming up, and I have been doing so much preperation for it. The closer it comes the more nervous-scared I get. I am 29 living on my own but cannot drive, so getting allot of help. Just repeating what the Dr said, there removing a portion in the right part of the brain... removing. I have been told I may loose a little of my short term memory does that sound weird. He said I will probably loose it anyways in the long run down the road, I belive that. I want to know who else has had this surgery and how they felt afterwards, pain, any memory loses or changes, just some insight to what your thoughts were.
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Re: Surgery right temp lobe 07/10/07 I'm getting nervous
Submitted by Angie m on Sun, 2007-07-01 - 16:54
Surgery is comming real close, those of you that had surgery how long were you off of work and how long did it take for you to feel back to normal.
Re: Re: Surgery right temp lobe 07/10/07 I'm getting nervous
Submitted by EarthMonkey on Tue, 2007-07-03 - 02:47
I went through surgery back in '95. I went back to work part time three months after surgery. It took over a year for me to feel back to normal. Part of that was because I was having so many seizures for so many years. I was used to at least six or more a day when I was going into surgery as well as repeated status. I really just expected them to happen and then I wasn't sure what to do when they didn't and paranoid that they would. Then it just takes time for brain injuries to heal. I also, due to the seizures, had half of my body kind of asleep. The nerves took months of suddenly getting more sensation once I stopped having tons of seizures. One thing you probably have happen after surgery is you can not open your mouth more than a centimeter because of jaw muscles being cut so get soft or easily cutable food. eating hurts. My surgery was on the left side by speech centers due to the swelling I lost some speech, reading, and writing abilities it took about a month or more for them to come back.
Stephanie, I have had
Submitted by Angie m on Sun, 2007-07-01 - 14:51
Stephanie, I have had everything but the surgery, I actually had 2 WADA test. I'm left handed, and seizures are on my right side. The first time I had the WADA, I got a little nervous, starting counting and then my voice was gone and half my body was frozen. I knew to expect half my body not to move, but not be able to speak. My seizures are on the same side as where I speak, and when I have a seizure I am unable to speak. After the WADA it all makes sense to me now. During the WADA I wouldn't call it pain, just "different" "intersting". What I didn't like was the preperation, a catheter up to find out to make sure when they put half your brain to sleep, that they were just putting half of it to sleep. Thanks, Angie