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Caused me my depression n anxiety n many other health isssues !im now 44 years old and suffered since 8yrs old!i i pray nobody has to goes through this pain of seizures especially TLE🙏😙
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Mine was traumatic brain injury 7-2012. Celebrating 12 years recovery this July! Walking talking praising GOD! Temporal Lobe Epilepsy started after going back to corporate work place and scar tissue… read more
Occipital lobe epilepsy is one of the rarest forms of epilepsy. if you google search it there is little to no information that pops up. I have a blog dedicated to epilepsy and epilepsy awareness and one of my followers had asked me to post more bout occipital lobe epilepsy, I was a little discouraged by the lack of information there is out there. so I am asking for help, does anyone know about occipital lobe epilepsy? anybody have it? what can you tell me? don't leave anything thing out tell me… read more
I have occipital lobe epilepsy. There's little or no information about it around. My vision in 1 eye moves inwards, followed by whirring, flashing colours, circles, bolts of lightening, spinning… read more
Mine were called Absence, now Partial Awareness. Where I live there is no Liability Insurance, so they call 911. I would not trust anyone to administer anything. I now wear a Lifeline button. I had a fall because I had not eaten due to a tooth being pulled, and was in the ER.
Mark, thank you.
Is it possible to have a 2nd temporal lobectomy?
I was told that since seizures occur in the left temporal lobe, surgery is not an option, as it could make my memory problem worse.
Left frontal lombectomy
I had 2 right temporal lobe lobectomies, removing 13%dead brain tissue of the 18% damaged. Unable to remove all 18% because it was too close, making too risky to area of other dead brain tissue. Or it… read more
To those of you who have Occipital lobe Epilepsy, what do you experience? Do you get a lot of headaches/ migraines? Or see flashing lights?
It looks like my diagnosis has slightly changed... So now I more then likely have TLE & OLE.
I have a occipital lobe tumour.diagnosed early last year. I have been well controlled, even in a 5 day inpatient VEM, then late last year I had 3 breakthrough seizures. I had a minor stroke in that… read more
Eye flickering since seizures started and recently learned that the flickering could be seizures as well. During the seconds that I experience this issue I’m no in control. What is the name for this type of seizure?
Your type of seizure isn't named only by where it begins... but the intensity and length of it as well
It sounds as though your seizures started in your occipital lobe
Did you see colour(lights) on… read more
My main surgery was 3/07/1991. It took very close
to 8hrs long.