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Epilepsy and Anesthesia?
Sun, 09/03/2006 - 10:24Topic: Women With Epilepsy
Hello ladies! Have any of you with epilepsy had any type of surgery where you had to be put under general anesthesia???
I am scheduled to have surgery on September 15th and I am very worried about being put under. Both my plastic surgeon and my neuro. say I "should" be fine, but i'm worried. My seizures have ALWAYS occured right after waking up in the morning so I worry about waking up from the deep sleep of anesthesia. I also have switched meds about two months ago and had a seizure last week, had bloodwork done yesterday to test levels. If there is anyone out there that can shed light on this worry for me....please do!!
Kristin
my experience
Submitted by teresa2step on Sun, 2007-11-11 - 16:34
Kristin,
I have had two kinds of seizures for years, simple partial and complex partial. I take tegretol and it works. I underwent three operations with anesthesia. I am about to undergo a cosmetic operation and feel cofident, since I had no complcations with seizures the three times. I came to the site to find answers to my concern about this same thing. I've just began to read others stories, but come back to trusting my own body and feel cofident since I've been through the three, and since my seizures have not gotten worse. I'm over 50. Now, since I brought this up to the surgeon, they may be putting me on hold, since they would prefere 'clearance' from a Doctor. If I have to go back to a neroligist, I just found my old one from years ago in Houston. That's who I would pick.
Oh, I will have a nurse with me for 24 hours afterward.
My guess for you is only to beware, since you have just changed medicine. It seems you might want to be confident in that first. Good luck.
If you learn more, you could tell me the news. Thanks, Teresa
Kristin,
I have had two kinds of seizures for years, simple partial and complex partial. I take tegretol and it works. I underwent three operations with anesthesia. I am about to undergo a cosmetic operation and feel cofident, since I had no complcations with seizures the three times. I came to the site to find answers to my concern about this same thing. I've just began to read others stories, but come back to trusting my own body and feel cofident since I've been through the three, and since my seizures have not gotten worse. I'm over 50. Now, since I brought this up to the surgeon, they may be putting me on hold, since they would prefere 'clearance' from a Doctor. If I have to go back to a neroligist, I just found my old one from years ago in Houston. That's who I would pick.
Oh, I will have a nurse with me for 24 hours afterward.
My guess for you is only to beware, since you have just changed medicine. It seems you might want to be confident in that first. Good luck.
If you learn more, you could tell me the news. Thanks, Teresa