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Scared
Sat, 02/25/2006 - 19:22Topic: Surgery and Devices
I am only 15 and in 2007 my neurologist are getting a new MIR machine and they will be able to tell my parents if i need surgery or not. I'm scared that if I do need surgery I will be so paranoid, I have never had brain surgery before.
Re: Scared
Submitted by aussie2006 on Fri, 2006-06-23 - 23:56
Hi, Do not worry about surgery,your surgeon should tell you ,after analyzing all your tests, if you atre suitable surgery or not, not every one is. Your surgeon ,after having results of tests will be able to tell you what level of success,percentage, you could expect if you decided to have surgery. I had surgery this year in March and wow!! it has been 100% successful for me . There is a relatively new test called an f MRI, which stands for functionality MRI, which tests what side of your brain controls different functions. The amazing thing is, your brain has no feelings, therefore has no pain. Depending on where your surgery would be i:e left or right temporal lobe, would affect the possibility of any side affects as a result of operation. I had had epilepsy since birth and was very lucky because ,those functions normally carried out by the part of my brain that was affected , had switched to the opposite side of my brain. I really hope you get a positive result, and if it is safe for you to have surgery, I would encourage you to do it, as doing it whilst you are young makes recovery better . I was back at full time work 8 weeks after my operation. It is now 16 weeks and I am doing everything I was before my op,except dancing, which I will be able to do, with time.