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VNS?
Thu, 09/22/2016 - 21:46Topic: Surgery and Devices
I have been on many different medications with little success. Depakote has worked extremely well to control my seizures. Course not something you can stay on if you one day want a family and I am 30 . My dr will want to try lamictal and VNS together. Who out there has had or still uses VNS , I would love to hear stories and opinion. Thanks . :)
Comments
Reader's Digest article:
Submitted by dmf1958 on Sun, 2017-04-02 - 12:38
Reader's Digest article: Medical Devices That Can Kill is a must read for anyone either with the device or thinking about surgery. Yes, that's me in the articlecenter4research.org/nrc-in-the-news/news-analysis.../medical-devices-that-can-kill/
I haven't had the VNS but I
Submitted by pfincher on Tue, 2016-10-11 - 14:28
I haven't had the VNS but I have heard both positive and negative things about it. You may also ask about the RNS. Where the VNS is always on (pulses the brain continuously at a specific rate) the RNS detects when a seizure is about to happen and attempts to stop it by pulsing only when it detects an issue.