When confronted with refractory seizures, various courses of action become available to physicians and to patients. The doctor can reevaluate the diagnosis and the medication therapy. The person with epilepsy can consider strategies...

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Mysoline, used alone or concomitantly with other anticonvulsants, is indicated in the control of grand mal, psychomotor, and focal epileptic seizures in adults and children years of age and older. It may control grand mal seizures...

The ketogenic diet is a high fat, high protein and very low carbohydrate diet, similar to the Atkins Diet used for weight loss. If is used mainly for children with uncontrolled seizures, but it has also been useful for some adults....

Doctors know that if the first few medicines fail to stop a person's seizures, the chances are not so good that a different medicine will be completely successful. Then it may be time to consider some other type of treatment. ...

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Seizures can be uncontrolled for three broad reasons, the most important of which are listed in Table 1. Table 1: Reasons for uncontrolled seizures The diagnosis is wrong The treatment is wrong The seizures do...

Seizures are sometimes described in terms of their causes, ease or difficulty of treatment, or other characteristics. Special Categories for Seizure Types Psychogenic Seizures Refractory Seizures Imitators of...