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Topic: Surgery and Devices

Possible surgery undecided

06/2007 | 6 Comments

Hello everyone. I have been dealing with this condition for seventeen years now. I have tried several AEDs and have also had a VNS operation. Now, I...
Possible surgery - LTL

06/2007 | 3 Comments

Hi everyone, I just wanted to share with you all the good news I got today from my neuro that I am in fact a candidate for surgery even though I have...
Surgery 5/30/07...after effects

06/2007 | 3 Comments

Hi everyone. My name is matt. I had surgery to remove part of my right temporal lobe last wednesday, to alleviate and hopefully stop my epilepsy(3...
Temp Lobe Surgery

06/2007 | 1 Comments

I would love to share my story if your interested. I had surgery May 14th of this year.
Surgery on temp lobe

05/2007 | 3 Comments

I have seizures in the temporal central lobe and my hippocampus. If anyone has had surgery on either one of these areas or both, could you tell me...
15 Years Seizure Free

05/2007 | 3 Comments

In January of 1991 I had successful surgery to my right temporal lobe. I had been having seizures since the age of 14 months old after a febrile...
Strange feelings after surgery

05/2007 | 2 Comments

I had left-temporal, amygdalo-hippo surgery 2 and a half monthes ago at the Mayo clinic. Is it ok to have any sort of strange feelings? I am very...
Deciding on surgery

05/2007 | 15 Comments

Help, I am very confused. My daughter is 11 and has partial complex seizures. Her seizures occur primarily at night and last for 1-3 minutes. She has...
surgery types ?

05/2007 | 1 Comments

I had a right temporal lobectomy one year ago to treat simple and complex events I endured for the last 20 years. (I'm 43 now.) Since surgery, I've...
Kinda freaked out

05/2007 | 9 Comments

At my last neuro appt. I got the feeling that he wanted to cut into my brain. I know that everyone who has gotten brain surgery and has come out on...
I had brain surgery

05/2007 | 5 Comments

HI, I used to be long to this group but I had to leave becasue I got really sick that i got really nasty with people and I just had to go. Well the...
Invasive EEG

05/2007 | 5 Comments

I just completed 4 days of EEG and video monitoring of my complex partial seizures at the Cleveland Clinic. They said all of the the seizures that I...
MEG tests

04/2007 | 4 Comments

Does anyone know anything about the MEG test and how important it is?
How important are MEG tests

04/2007 | 0 Comments

I was wondering how many people out there have had Meg tests done before surgery and what importance they put on this diagnosic test?

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