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Does Anyone Have Left Temporal Lobe Epilepsy And PTSD?
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I have had left temporal lobe epilepsy since 2010 from a TBI (and have numerous other health conditions). I also now have PTSD from trauma over the past few years. I've found the PTSD combined with my epilepsy triggers one another. I'm frustrated with Western medicine neurologists as they just want to perform EEGs and up your meds when there are seizures occurring, rather than looking at the causes of the seizures. I actually found an amazing study from March from Israel where they looked at… read more

posted November 3, 2020
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I have left temporal lobe seizures. You may want to give the Epilepsy Foundation a call and ask if there are any Epileptologists near you . Or, maybe there’s a very good respected neurologist , who may do more than EEGs and changing meds.

An Epileptologist will see more than one path to try , for treatments. My Epileptologist has done more than any of my past neurologists.

posted November 5, 2020

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