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seizures after brain surgery

Sun, 03/09/2008 - 08:03
Hi....my wife had a brain tumor removed 7 years ago and since then has suffered from seizures.  She has had simple partial as well as at least one episode of Grand Mal seizures.  She takes Topomax and Keppra.  Most of the time she is fine but occassionally she has seizures in her facial muscles that are unseen by me or anyone else.  She says she can feel herself seizing.  Anyway, my questions is:  has anyone else experience seizures after a brain surgery and if so what is the prognosis for living seizure free?  Thanks

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Re: seizures after brain surgery

Submitted by richardmama on Tue, 2008-04-22 - 09:33

Hi Scott,

Thank you very much for your kind regards and useful information.  May God bless!  I will post once we have a decision on my son's medical treatment.  Sincerely Mary.

 

Hi Scott,

Thank you very much for your kind regards and useful information.  May God bless!  I will post once we have a decision on my son's medical treatment.  Sincerely Mary.

 

Re: seizures after brain surgery

Submitted by Ranger on Tue, 2008-04-22 - 11:26

Youre welcome Mary. Good luck in your decision, and keep us all posted. We will be pulling for you guys.   Take care    Scott.

Youre welcome Mary. Good luck in your decision, and keep us all posted. We will be pulling for you guys.   Take care    Scott.

Re: seizures after brain surgery

Submitted by Ranger on Tue, 2008-03-18 - 20:49

Hello my name is Ranger and I just had my surgery 4 months ago. 11/12/2007.

I was having about 2 seizures a day prior to surgery. After surgery I had a couple of seizures while the brain was healing. Especially during the first 2 months. Since then the only thing I feel is the Pins and needles feeling on my scalp. Which in itself is a mild seizure. I need to wait until the 12 month period to judge for sure. However at this point it appears to have slowed but not completely stoped them.

As long as they continue to slowly improve or at the very least dont worsen from where they are I consider it a win, and worth the surgery.

Hello my name is Ranger and I just had my surgery 4 months ago. 11/12/2007.

I was having about 2 seizures a day prior to surgery. After surgery I had a couple of seizures while the brain was healing. Especially during the first 2 months. Since then the only thing I feel is the Pins and needles feeling on my scalp. Which in itself is a mild seizure. I need to wait until the 12 month period to judge for sure. However at this point it appears to have slowed but not completely stoped them.

As long as they continue to slowly improve or at the very least dont worsen from where they are I consider it a win, and worth the surgery.

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