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Post lobectomy surgery
Mon, 05/14/2018 - 10:19Topic: Share Your Story
I am a 44 year old wife and mother of 5 and three weeks had a right temporal lobectomy. Can anyone share with me their experience and how long it took to be a regular functioning person. I just want to be able to make meals. Clean up and give my husband and kids the wife and mother they deserve and so desperately need. PLEASE ADVISE.
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I had lobectomy in 2013 and
Submitted by gstopani on Wed, 2018-06-27 - 15:37
I had lobectomy in 2013 and went back to work after 7 weeks off. Driving after about a month. Till this day I rarely have headaches, but I am still on medication tegretol 200 twice a day. It does get better and I am going to be 46yrs old.
Lakegirl --I had RTL
Submitted by jkghjkkkgg on Mon, 2018-05-14 - 21:08
Lakegirl --I had RTL resection 10/31/17 and no seizures so far as of 5/14/18. They resumed my keppra (3 twice a day) immediately, and Tylonol to relieve bad headaches for a month. I got functional after 50 days, but not driving yet.-- John