I did this last year- Ended up staying a week. The goal is to see a seizure and/or seizure activity in order to better understand where is the brain your seizures are coming from, if your a candidate for any kind of operation, etc.

It got pretty boring as you're confined to your bed and, at least at Mayo I had to call for a nurse to go to the restroom. I'd recommend bringing puzzles, books, or I loaded my laptop with some movies to occupy my time.

@A MyEpilepsyTeam Member - to ID where in your brain seizures occur involves using an EEG to locate the specific location (e.g. left hippocampus? right hippocampus? etc; over 40 different locations ID'd so far). This key piece of info largely defines what is the next logical step in moving forward. Surgery - yes or no; VNS? vagus nerve stimulation?

In order to find the most correct procedure to follow, an experienced brain surgeon needs first to accurately find location in the brain where seizure activity happens.

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I spent 3 weeks in a hospital's "Epilepsy" connected 24/7 to an EEG while I was taken off my meds. This helped my neurologist accurately ID the brain location of my seizure activity. Location is key to help a surgeon decide accurate surgery to use.

Never been there asa patient but in the U.K. we have a fantastic centre of excellence @Gerrards Cross Bucks U.K. it has the most up to date scanners equipment Specifically desisigned for patients with Epilepsy

Well it wasn't exactly a seizure center. It was just a ginormous hospital in Cleveland Ohio. I got sent there for two weeks too get some tests done, then a couple months later I went back for about a week and a half for my surgery.