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Wat are the chances of being a epilepsy patient who 16 and it still hasn't?


disappeared to be referred for surgery as i have it and feel it has social consequences and full of stress

Generally, before a patient is considered for epilepsy surgery they have failed one year trials of two different medication regimens. They also typically have severe disease with multiple seizures (several per week, if not several per day). Surgery is intended to be a tool to treat the seizures, not the stress associated with having the disorder, because having surgery often only reduces the amount of seizures. It's quite possible to have surgery and continue to have seizures afterward, so even though the epilepsy has improved, nothing has been done to address your reasons for being interested in the surgery.

The main reasons that seizure surgery is not offered to more people is that it's fairly risky and that there's no guarantee it will fix the problem. With the exception of a vagal nerve stimulator, the various procedures are operations on your brain which are not undertaken lightly. This may all change as research continues and new treatments become available, but for the time being only a small percentage of patients with epilepsy are considered for surgery.

You would have to talk to your doctor about it, if it's really getting serious, i.e., strong memory loss, learning difficulties, amongst other things. I wouldn't advise going immediately for the surgery solely because of the "social consequences", as those aren't as bad as you think. Honestly, it's just a case of finding "the right people". All of my friends understood it at the time, and even those who didn't really like me at school knew about it and respected it.

If it's manageable with medication, however, the person will be fine. I'm a former epileptic myself - had rolandic epilepsy until...13, if I remember correctly, then the seizures stopped when I started taking Topamax regularly. I know a few people who are older and still have epilepsy (one is 30 and the other is 54, I believe) and they lead completely normal lives. Just be sure to keep everyone informed about it, so that they know what to do if he has a seizure.
I used to swim 4 times a week when I still had epilepsy, and never once I experienced problems, but all of my instructors were informed about my condition and always checked if I was okay.

But, again, talk to your doctor; he will probably give you a much more educated opinion than me.

what surgery?

you dont have surgery for epilepsy......... its an elecronic brain dis fucntion

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