I had brain surgery 7 years ago and have been seizure free ever since. My neurologist I had been seeing for close to 20 years had me go from 4 seizure meds down to one over 2 years. He wanted me to stay on 1 seizure med the rest of my life because he felt it could be the med and the surgery keeping me seizure free. He just retired. My new neurologist feels that since I have gone this long that I don't need any seizure meds. She suggested slowly lowering my med and adventually going to none… read more
After having Ablation surgery i was not removed from my seizures because no one knew how i would fair hours or days later. I was doing pretty good with just one medication. But 16 months later seizures started to come back and another drug need to be added. Everyone is different, so the same surgery will not spell equal results for others. Some are lucky enough to do away with meds, others down to one medication a day. Depends on your system.
Sounds like Temporal Lobe Surgery. I'm glad You did great!
I don't know the name of the surgery. They made a small incision on the left side of my head and removed scar tissue from my brain which is what they believed was causing my seizures.
What type of brain surgery??