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I've had epilepsy all my life, which has been very mild--not really interfering with anything except not being able to get a driver's license and needing to be on meds. However, the seizures have been increasing in frequency (not really severity) for the last few years.
I've had mild-to-moderate ME for five years, after having a much milder condition for the previous five years: I'm unable to work, walk more than a few blocks, and am often housebound.
Last year my new neurologist sent me to the hospital for 11 days for monitoring to confirm that I actually have epilepsy. What the hospital does is assess people to determine if they are candidates for brain surgery. I was told in Sept that I can have my left temporal lobe removed, which will probably decrease my seizures--the doc says they will increase as time goes on, affecting my memory, etc. I was briefly very enthusiastic about this, but then got cold feet. I have no ideas what kind of crash brain surgery would induce, or if I would ever recover from it. (11 days of lying in the hospital having my food brought to me--but being taken off my meds for over 24 hours--crashed me for a week when I got home.) The doc and surgeon know nothing about ME.
Any thoughts? Thank you!
I've had mild-to-moderate ME for five years, after having a much milder condition for the previous five years: I'm unable to work, walk more than a few blocks, and am often housebound.
Last year my new neurologist sent me to the hospital for 11 days for monitoring to confirm that I actually have epilepsy. What the hospital does is assess people to determine if they are candidates for brain surgery. I was told in Sept that I can have my left temporal lobe removed, which will probably decrease my seizures--the doc says they will increase as time goes on, affecting my memory, etc. I was briefly very enthusiastic about this, but then got cold feet. I have no ideas what kind of crash brain surgery would induce, or if I would ever recover from it. (11 days of lying in the hospital having my food brought to me--but being taken off my meds for over 24 hours--crashed me for a week when I got home.) The doc and surgeon know nothing about ME.
Any thoughts? Thank you!