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Did surgery affect your artistic abilities?
Fri, 02/09/2018 - 22:48Topic: Surgery and Devices
I have right side temporal mesial sclerosis. My neuro is discussing surgical options as I am running out of medications we can try. I am an artist. Did any of you who had surgery have and deficits in any artistic abilities that they had after having surgery? We are mostly looking at laser ablation as at the time I refuse "open" surgery. I will even try gamma knife before traditional surgery. I just want any input from those who are artists (hobby or professional) and have went through any surgery to see how it affected their abilities. Thanks!
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Right now I'm on Keppra and
Submitted by Cynthia10 on Sun, 2018-02-11 - 03:11
Right now I'm on Keppra and topamax. I've also tried lamictal, zonegran, vimpat, and trileptal. I'm on 4000mg keppra xr. I couldn't handle side effects of vimpat (severe headaches). Lamictal didn't really work and it made me feel like crap/worsened my depression. Zonegran I don't remeber the dose. Trileptal sent me to the ER with a severe rash. And I'm not one to go the the ER, I've only been 3 times in my life including that reaction because I was afraid I was about to go into anaphylaxis. I was weaning off topamax now I'm kind of back on it at 100mg daily, maybe about to go to 100 twice daily.
Right now I'm on Keppra and
Submitted by Cynthia10 on Sun, 2018-02-11 - 03:12
Right now I'm on Keppra and topamax. I've also tried lamictal, zonegran, vimpat, and trileptal. I'm on 4000mg keppra xr. I couldn't handle side effects of vimpat (severe headaches). Lamictal didn't really work and it made me feel like crap/worsened my depression. Zonegran I don't remeber the dose. Trileptal sent me to the ER with a severe rash. And I'm not one to go the the ER, I've only been 3 times in my life including that reaction because I was afraid I was about to go into anaphylaxis. I was weaning off topamax now I'm kind of back on it at 100mg daily, maybe about to go to 100 twice daily.
My neuro is discussing
Submitted by just_joe on Sat, 2018-02-10 - 10:17
My neuro is discussing surgical options as I am running out of medications we can try. How many medications have you tried? At what doses and what levels did you go to? Thru the years I have been on many meds and combinations of meds. Surgery is not an option for me since I have scar tissue in more then one lobe so working on one lobe would not stop all the different seizures. However there are many different meds and procedures that can be tried to reduce the number of seizures you have been having. I was diagnosed many years before the neurologists started going into specialties which happened in the mid 80's. By working with my Docs we have gotten my seizures down to one every now and then lasting few seconds and you wouldn't know I had one even if you were watching me during the seizure.I did wood burning and won prizes in fairs and sold a few. I made oil derricks that were given to friends and family as gifts. Age and rough times has caused some issues but I can still do them. It just takes more time. Your body wears out over a period of time I have only been living with epilepsy for 50+ years