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Topic: Surgery and Devices

Collasping!

03/2007 | 5 Comments

Hi everyone, A had a very scarey night last night. I have a question for everyone who has had surgery on this site. I went out on the town last night...
St. John's Wort

03/2007 | 4 Comments

HI There Has anyone had any trouble taking the herbal anti-depressants St. John's Wort? I had severe increase in seizures and had to report it. Thanx
Please help!

03/2007 | 9 Comments

The roads are very slippery here, with thick ice. Leaving church this morning, with my 2 young girls, I fell. Not only did I fall, but I fell *very*...
INTRACRANIAL MONITORING W/GRIDS?

03/2007 | 5 Comments

HAS ANYONE HAD THIS?I'M SCHEDULED TO HAVE INTRACRANIAL MONITORING W/GRIDS BY WAY OF CRANIOTOMY.IF I'M LUCKY I WILL HAVE A RESECTION RIGHT AFTER.I HAVE...
possible surgery

02/2007 | 2 Comments

I was recently at a new Neurologist. She presented to me Surgery options. Has anyone here had surgery? Feel free to email me at strongbull00512@aim...
anyone had left frontal lobe resection?

02/2007 | 6 Comments

despite my username i am gregg not greggs wife.on march 12th i will go to mayo clinic to have intercranial monitoring with grids done.if this...
Temporal lobe tumor surgery questions

02/2007 | 21 Comments

When I was in high school, I thought I was loosing my mind. I started having reoccuring instances when I would feel an intense deja vu and experience...
Autobiography to be published this year

02/2007 | 2 Comments

Hello everyone, my name is Lisa-Marie Kinsman and I am an epilepsy advocate/counselor to over 1,600 people worldwide online. It has taken me about 15...
Questions on the left temporal lobectomy

02/2007 | 15 Comments

I am scheduled to have my surgery on the 17th of April. At this point I am trying to get my affairs in order. I have a couple of questions for...
Seizures right before surgery

02/2007 | 1 Comments

Hello everyone- Quick survey of sorts- did having seizures the week or so before your surgery have any effect on the outcome/success of your surgery...
Surgury a sucsess!

02/2007 | 1 Comments

Well my feance had his epilepsy surgury 6 months ago now, he was having at the very least a sezure a day. Since the surgury he hasnt had a single one...
Just starting evaluation...

02/2007 | 6 Comments

I'm about to start the first phase of evaluation for being a surgery candidate at the Cleveland Clinic, I've had complex partial seizures most of my...
Left Temporal Lobectomy

02/2007 | 4 Comments

Well I have been approved to have a left temporal lobectomy with removal of the hippocampus and the amybalus. I am having the surgery done at Mass...
Head staples

02/2007 | 6 Comments

Well, I finally had my head staples removed. It wasnt a pleasant experience, but Im glad theyre out. No matter how much of that numbing stuff he put...

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