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After Surgery

Fri, 11/12/2010 - 18:31

Hi 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 dennyxx82 on Tue, 2010-11-23 - 08:54

 Hi was reading about your op I have been suffering from epilepsy since the age of 6mths now im 42.Lately im even having loss of memory.How long did the op take and how long did you stay in hospital as I live in Malta and they dont do that kind of op here un luckily.Its even hard for me to depart from my children and family.Was your op successful?Thank you and hope to hear from you.                                                                                   

             

                                                                                                              Yours sincerely                                         

                                                                                                                Elaine

 Hi was reading about your op I have been suffering from epilepsy since the age of 6mths now im 42.Lately im even having loss of memory.How long did the op take and how long did you stay in hospital as I live in Malta and they dont do that kind of op here un luckily.Its even hard for me to depart from my children and family.Was your op successful?Thank you and hope to hear from you.                                                                                   

             

                                                                                                              Yours sincerely                                         

                                                                                                                Elaine

Re: After Surgery

Submitted by happygirl on Fri, 2010-11-19 - 03:50
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Re: After Surgery

Submitted by dbrownpilot on Tue, 2010-11-23 - 20:03

Hello happygirl.

I'm having a post-op MRI tomorrow. (11/24) I had left temporal resection June 7. I used to be terrified of mri's but I've had so many of them and CT scans that I just don't care anymore.

I'm having some of the same post surgery problems you mentioned. My short term memory is terrible and so is my speech. I used to be very articulate, but now I'm happy just to finish a sentence. However, these problems were developing before surgery. My neurologist tells me my best chances of improvement will be somewhat dependent on the seizures stopping. I haven't had any seizures since the first week after surgery, so I'm optimistic.

I wish the best going forward. I hope you find seizure control through your surgery. Hopefully everything will work out good as well. 

Hello happygirl.

I'm having a post-op MRI tomorrow. (11/24) I had left temporal resection June 7. I used to be terrified of mri's but I've had so many of them and CT scans that I just don't care anymore.

I'm having some of the same post surgery problems you mentioned. My short term memory is terrible and so is my speech. I used to be very articulate, but now I'm happy just to finish a sentence. However, these problems were developing before surgery. My neurologist tells me my best chances of improvement will be somewhat dependent on the seizures stopping. I haven't had any seizures since the first week after surgery, so I'm optimistic.

I wish the best going forward. I hope you find seizure control through your surgery. Hopefully everything will work out good as well. 

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