Hello, First off, I have Complex Partial seizures. I have had eplipsy for 10 years.

Has anyone started to have auras 3 months after right temperol lobe surgery more frequently than the initial 3 months. I had surgery at start of december but I have been feeling a sense of anxiety of late nearly like each day auras were so much a part of my...

I am close to 3 months post op after having right temperol lobe surgery and initial recovery went well with the first 4 weeks pretty tough and painful but good progress after that each day/week. However after the 8 weeks i went back to work and felt really...

Hi Everyone, This is largely what registered for, hoping to find some people who have had these surgeries and can speak of their success or results, to give me an idea of what I'd be signing on for. A brief sum before getting to the surgery, i had my...

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Hi, I have parietal lobe epilepsy and have just found out yesterday that I got the green light for surgery. I hav yet to meet the neurosurgon and discuss how successful it could be and the risks involvoed if I still want to go through with it. The...

  Anyone been through the process of a pre-evaluation for surgery? I'm headed to the Mayo in a few weeks and want to know what you had to go through.

Back in the mid 1990's I went through the full testing process to see if we could do a temporal lobectomy on my right hemisphere but when we got down to the subdural grid exam, there were problems.  The grids only gave a 60% certainty they found the seizure...

If you need any advice on brain surgery, let me know.  I had surgery December, 2008 and have been seizure free for over a year. 

Has anyone in this group had or knows someone who has had a right temporal lobectomy?John...

Hi I'm having epilepsy for 23 yrs. now, and my neurologist wants to try a new kind of operating on me called: Hippocampal transection of the left temporal lobe. Has anybody heard of this? What is does is instead removing the left temporal lobe, it is...

Hi. I am looking for the best VNS surgeon I can find. If you or someone you know had a great experience with a very experienced surgeon, would you please email me at 2879@sbcglobal.net. Thanks

        Hello to anyone reading this.        I am currently 24 years old and have been suffering from undiagnosed gran-mal epilepsie for 5 years.        Recently (Jan 12th), I probably had one of my worst experiences...

I am looking for anyone who has had a corpus collostomy. We are looking into this for my 2 year old son who has many drop seizures everyday. Any info would be greatly appreciated....

Hello,

Need help in reading my MRI for brain surgery.Doctors have said that this is Occipital Lobe Epilepsy Surgery.The MRI can be found in http://www.esnips.com/web/sanjuv999-MRI Has anybody underwent a surgery for the same?Any advise for the same/feedback/comment...

I Had surgery done to my Left  tempral lobe this passed November 4th 2008.  It is now December 13 2008 making it 6 weeks since. All of the pain from where they cut into my brain and skull as well as the pain on the left side of my jaw line is over, but last...

My daughter is now 9 months old and has been living with daily seizures since 3 months old. She has infantile spasms and tonic seizures every day, even though she is on 3 anti convulsants. She has cortical dysplagia and is scheduled for surgery in March. How...

Does anyone have any experience of after having right temperol lobe and going through a 6-8 week recovery period and then going back to live/work at high altitude of over 10,000ft. Before surgery i did live at altitude as well and didnt notice it to be any...

my son is diagnosed with  lenox gastaut syndrome n needs to get this surgery corpus callotomy done  i am looking for anyone who has had this surgery done to let me know how their experience went with it i am a nervous reck just thinking about

I have a 9 month old daughter who is going to have surgery for her epilepsy/cortical dysplagia next month. Does any one have experience with this surgery, especially for infants?

Hello to everyone who lives with and loves a person with uncontrolled epilepsy. My beautiful 9 year old daughter is due to have surgery on the 29th of Sept 2009. Whilst we are excitied about the prospect of, 70% chance of becoming seizure free - we...

I was diagnosed with epilepsy at 13. I lost my teenage years to trips to the ER, medication, tests, and medication side effects. After 6 years of trying to find a medication that would control all of my seizures I am running short on patience. I am so tired...

 Several members of my family have a seizure disorder, epilepsy, whatever you choose to call it. My younger sister, 44, who was, and I repeat WAS, a registered nurse and a single mom who was in the process of purchasing her first home with the pretty good...

Hi all-For anybody that might be interesting in pursuing brain surgery,  I'd be happy to discuss my situation.  I had a right temporal lobectomy in December, 2008 at Tampa General Hospital (GREAT staff) and have been seizure free ever since.  Surgery was...

anxiously awaiting to get there....im leaving to go to london, ontario for my brain surgery (temporal lobectomy) today and ive been waiting for so many years for this day!!! 21yrs in the suffering of comlex partials and 3 grandmals throughout my life and ...

Hi I am brand new to this site and am looking for some help and perhaps a little reassurance. I have suffered with seizures since I was 10 due to a birth defect in my occipital lobe which has also left me visually disabled. I have been relatively well controlled...

This ? has been asked before, but I'll try again. not much response to the last person who asked. i guess not many people have frontal lobe surgery. my 25yo daughter may be a good candidate for it. i want to know more about the effects...

Hi 4 weeks ago I had a vns implanted and have had some problems since - have any of you had either of these happen?

does any one have the VNS and if u do has it ever broke on you are do you know anyone that has it and it broke.

Hello everyone,

My daughter had a left temporal lobectomy, following placement and removal of subdural grids and depth electrodes, January 27th 2009. We went about 5 months with NO SEIZURES- YAY! Unfortunately, at right about 6 months, she began having very severe head...

This past weekend I saw, on an episode of W-Five, a story called The Brainstorm Within.  It was discussing surgery for epilepsy that is NOT well known.  My posting is to guage opinions on this and to HOPEFULLY hear from someone who has had the surgery...

HELLO!I HAD A LEFT FRONTAL LOBE RESECTION ON MARCH 20,2007 I USED TO HAVE 1-5 SEIZURES IN MY SLEEP EVERY NIGHT .NOW NONE.BUT SOMETIMES I GET FAMILIAR FEELINGS IN MY HEAD.ITS NOT STRONG ENOUGH FOR AN AURA BUT IT FEELS LIKE ONE.I DON'T...

My 8 yr old son has intractable epilepsy. He is severely developmentally delayed and three seizures meds plus the VNS. The latest "treatment" the doctors want to try is corpus callosotomy. I would like to hear from anyone who has...

Anyone else have the monster headaches following surgery? I had mine done on Jan. 3rd and was doing quite well, and then about two weeks post op the headaches started. I am still working with my doctor to find the best way to deal...

I have had major surgery 4.5 years ago. Now I have a 4 by 6 plastic on the left side of skull. Recently it has been seen that a aneurysm has grown to a double size since last time it was seen. So I have an appointment in Phila. with a specialist in this...

Hi, I was diagnosed with epilepsy about a year ago but, my neurologist believes I had my whole life and it was not properly diagnosed due the fact that my partials were blame on ADHD. Anyway, my partials have been getting  increasingly worse and I am having...

I've had partial complex seizures starting while I was in HS, in the years of the late '90's.  I used to have them well mainted and so I could drive.  Then in the mid '00's things sort of broke out of control I'll say and I began having them once a...

Hi everyone, i know this is pretty similar to a few other posts on here, but i just wanted to know if there were people that could give me some information/advice on the left temporal lobe resection that i'm having in the summer. Basically this is my situation:

I am 30 and have had epilepsy for about 7 years over that time things havent improved, they have gradually got worse. I recently went to see my neuro and i was very surprised that the first thing he mentioned was surgery. However he did say that because...

Hello!,     I had a temporal lobectomy a few years back and I was wondering if anyone who had the surgery can answer a couple of questions that have been bugging me.     1. The shape of my skull is more uneven than it used to be, and sometimes...

Do you have an VNS and have no problems with your voice or hearing the VNS go off? I have a friend who is looking at getting his VNS for depression and he would really like to talk to a few people who have minimal to no voice/sound alterations from the VNS....

I hope someone can help me. I had VNS surgery almost 2 months ago, since the surgery I have been extremely tired. I don't have the energy to do any tasks. If I do accomplish something I usually have to take a nap afterwards (2 hours). My doctor says that it...

Looking for a connection between vns and gastroparesis/gi problems.I have had my VNS for 5 years now and I just had a new generator put in. However, for a number of months I have had serious GI problems. I woke up with a stomach ache during the night and have...

i have had two brain surgerys one at 17 and one at 25,i might have the chance to have the vns surgery but i dont want to go threw the pain of surgery again,can anyone tell me about it and does it or did it hurt?