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After Surgery
Fri, 11/12/2010 - 18:31Hi All,
Sorry I have a few questions post surgery that I hope you can help with.
1. What does the post MRI do.
2. Seems I am very anxious (don't recall this being as huge a problem until I went on medicine). Can medicine case anxiety side effects.
3. Concentration/language - can this be affected by surgery? i.e. hard to concentrate (4 months later) and find I miss words when typing at work.
Thanks
Comments
Re: After Surgery
Submitted by happygirl on Fri, 2010-11-19 - 03:50
Many thanks to both of you for taking the time to respond.
Seems like the after effects are the same for all of us.
I just hate my life and everything epilepsy has brought to it (I only got it 4 years ago). Yesterday for example, I sent an invoice to my manager, and it was completely wrong, to the exent that I did not even understand what i did.
So now everyone says - I must have had a seizure, I have no idea what happened. Normally when I have seizures I blank out for a minute or so and not aware that i have had it unless someone tells me.
I absolutely hate things at the moment, I feel I am doing a job that I could have done 20 years ago, and am useless at it, so to make up for me being incompetent, I work extra hours for which I am not paid and then feel exploited.
I just hope things getter better.
Many thanks to both of you for taking the time to respond.
Seems like the after effects are the same for all of us.
I just hate my life and everything epilepsy has brought to it (I only got it 4 years ago). Yesterday for example, I sent an invoice to my manager, and it was completely wrong, to the exent that I did not even understand what i did.
So now everyone says - I must have had a seizure, I have no idea what happened. Normally when I have seizures I blank out for a minute or so and not aware that i have had it unless someone tells me.
I absolutely hate things at the moment, I feel I am doing a job that I could have done 20 years ago, and am useless at it, so to make up for me being incompetent, I work extra hours for which I am not paid and then feel exploited.
I just hope things getter better.
Re: After Surgery
Submitted by spike-wave on Tue, 2010-11-23 - 10:03
Hi-
What part of the brain was your surgery on?
Jason
Hi-
What part of the brain was your surgery on?
Jason
Re: After Surgery
Submitted by ambrakay on Fri, 2010-11-12 - 19:33
I am 4 months post surgery myself (7-25-10 temporal lobe resection). My quality of life has dwindled DRASTICALLY since the surgery. I've always had excellent grammatical skills and been very articulate and expansive in my vocabulary. Now when I'm in conversations I find myself repeating stories (can't remember what I have and haven't told people), at a loss for words (can't think of which word to use, mostly adjectives but not always) and yes, my concentration is SHOT. I've been told that this will subside as my amygdala rebuilds itself (I had to have one completely removed per DNET brain tumor causing gliomas to form and, of course, exacerbating seizure & panic activities). Also, I've been told by several different doctors that it generally takes up to a year for all of these lingering symptoms (such as the ones you've listed) to clear themselves up but that they will. Hope this helps :-)