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Surgical Sucess?

Tue, 04/03/2007 - 10:39

Topic: Surgery and Devices

I am 17 and I suffer from a range of seizures including simple partial, complex partial and complex partial absense seizures to to a benign tumor in my lower left temporal lobe. i am scheduled for surgery to have my tumor removed next month at Yale. I am looking for anyone that has been through a similar situation and wondering if there is any success in surgerical removal of tumors ending seizures because i know that it is the cause. If anyone suffers/ed from what i go through or knows someone i would really like to know their situation and results.

Comments

Thanks for the nice words,

Submitted by solis on Wed, 2007-04-04 - 03:01

Thanks for the nice words, Epi, ~sol

Re: Surgical Sucess?

Submitted by krissy on Thu, 2007-04-05 - 20:17

I had a lesion from a high temperature as a baby. A lobectomy in 1996 at Mayos Clinic in Scottsdale, AZ and seizure free for 10 years! Think positive! I wish you well. Kristin

Re: Re: Surgical Sucess?

Submitted by Old Timer on Thu, 2007-04-12 - 21:36

I had a right temporal loboctomy in 2001. I was siezure free for 3 1/2 yrs. During which I could drive. However, seizures manifest themselves again. Apparently, the surgeon didn't get all the dead cells from the Flat Dead Zone around the 1"length x 1/2" side to side scar tissue that was removed. Suspected I got the scar due to high fevers when 2 yrs.old 1956 however, during my childhood, they were undetected until 1977. My first Grand Mal. I'm left handed hence, my left side of the brain performed the functions of the right side of brain. Such an amazing organ, the brain Presently, I'm on Lamicatal, Kepra, Clobazam.

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