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Topic: Surgery and Devices

Coping with seizures and a family

09/2004 | 1 Comments

Hi my name is Jennifer Johnson and I am 39 years old with 4 children, 1 bio son of my own and 3 stepchildren, my husband and I have been married 9...
partial complex seizures

09/2004 | 0 Comments

I wonder if someone else has ever had this problem. Bald spots from long term EEG? When my son was in the hospital they did the long term EEG. Its...
VNS

07/2004 | 7 Comments

DOES ANYONE HAD ANY BAD EXPERIENCES WITH THE VNS?I AM PLANNING ON HAVING IT DONE AROUND MARCH 16TH IN INDIANAPOLIS,INDIANA AT ST.VINCENTSHOSPITAL.MY...
partial complex seizures

07/2004 | 34 Comments

Hi everyone, I'm new at all of this. I've never written in to chat rooms before but I could really use some information and advise, so I thought this...
post-op seizures

03/2004 | 3 Comments

Hi. This is my first post. I'm a 27 year old male living in NJ. I had surgery 6 months ago to remove a cavernous angioma leison, which was believed to...
age consideration for surgery

01/2004 | 3 Comments

My son is eleven and we have been considering surgery for his seizures. We are wondering if it would be beneficial to wait till he's alittle older or...

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