I know it’s been awhile since I hung out here, (one day last September and then January before that :eek:) but that wasn’t due to finally becoming a normal person.
We moved a bit ago and we did a bunch, so life was busy and crazy. (First excuse)
Then my doctor said I might be able to have surgery to fix my epilepsy. (Second excuse)
That became three different visits to the hospital to test and then “fix” my brain. So my head has been kind of crazy, and . . . I’m sorry! I might have kind of forgotten about you! I was thinking about this site the other day and couldn’t remember the name! :smack:
Yeah, so anyway, I’ve always liked this place and (hopefully, depending on everyone else) am/will be happy to be back again!!!
tl;dr
I forgot, but have remembered here!
What kind of surgery? What specific type of epilepsy is it for? And all those nosy questions that I probably will regret asking once I start seeing pictures.
Whether it worked or not, hope general health’s all right and all that.
They don’t really agree to a yes or no for about a year because your brain is busy fixing itself. I’ve still had three seizures in the post three months, but that’s better than how it was. I was told the Dr who did the surgery doesn’t consider it a success unless it down to about two a year so he may think it didn’t really work.
If he want’s to pay me back though, I’m cool with that.
I have temporal lobectomy which is a common epilepsy. I’ve only had a handful of tonic-clonic (formally known as grand mal) seizures, but lots of complex partial ones. They’ve gotten to about weekly even with medication.
I had an EEG week in the hospital in September. They liked the result and we went to the EEG 2b (I think they called it that) in December. In that one they . . . umm . . . took 13 thin rods with EEGs on them and put those in my brain for a week. :eek: They liked that my seizures seemed to start in the same spot. So in March they took that 2x2cm spot out. And my left hippocampus, which has changed my mind, oddly.