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Temporal lobe tumor surgery questions
Tue, 02/27/2007 - 19:53Comments
Re: Temporal lobe tumor surgery questions
Submitted by forestams on Thu, 2007-03-22 - 17:41
Re: Temporal lobe tumor surgery questions
Submitted by sparkations on Fri, 2008-03-14 - 09:48
Hey Amanda,
I have a benign brain tumor that is suspected to be congenital and it is 2 cm as well, and located in the posterior temporal lobe. The neurosurgeon doesn't feel its necessary to operate on it, but I do have epilepsy and take tegretol in order to control my seizures. I've been considering surgery, but when I brought the subject up to my neurosurgeon, he said it wasn't necessary to do it at this point.
I was wondering whether your neurologist and neurosurgeon said the same thing? That you didn't need to have it operated and advised you against it due to chances of infections, etc? Well, I'm from Ontario so under OHIP, I get to have surgery for free, and maybe they advised me against it because of the fact that surgeries cost a lot and is a burden on the health care system.
I also have other health problems, such as social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety, and urinary retention problems. I wonder whether its because of the tumor.
Lena
Hey Amanda,
I have a benign brain tumor that is suspected to be congenital and it is 2 cm as well, and located in the posterior temporal lobe. The neurosurgeon doesn't feel its necessary to operate on it, but I do have epilepsy and take tegretol in order to control my seizures. I've been considering surgery, but when I brought the subject up to my neurosurgeon, he said it wasn't necessary to do it at this point.
I was wondering whether your neurologist and neurosurgeon said the same thing? That you didn't need to have it operated and advised you against it due to chances of infections, etc? Well, I'm from Ontario so under OHIP, I get to have surgery for free, and maybe they advised me against it because of the fact that surgeries cost a lot and is a burden on the health care system.
I also have other health problems, such as social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety, and urinary retention problems. I wonder whether its because of the tumor.
Lena
Hi alexis, I was on AEDs for
Submitted by solis on Fri, 2007-03-02 - 17:57
Hi alexis, I was on AEDs for decades before surgery and one year afterwards. The daily medicine dose is now being slowly lowered. I'll be completely off both AEDs in a few months. Should you want to ask any further questions, feel free to e-mail me. Best wishes :) ~sol