Hi my name is Krista and I just turned 30 March of this year and I got surgery back in November 2018 for Vegas nerve stimulation therapy implant and for me it didn't take long for me to recover now I can and will say about 7 months later June 2019 till now I've only had 10 seizures but before this I was having an average of maybe three every few months and when I was in high school I was having an average of four every month.

It was in 2014 is when the big scare happened with one of my seizures sorry I was about 2 years off

Well to be honest the reason I decided to start looking into alternative ways of controlling epilepsy was because in 2016 I had a pretty big scare with one of my seizures and I finally decided I don't want that kind of stuff happening again and I just wanted my seizures to be fully in control so that nobody has to worry but I still can't drive and the other reason is I've been on many of the medications and none of them really fully helped plus one of them I'm allergic to and then there's another medicine I stopped taking not long ago which was causing me to have really bad dizzy spells.

I have had a brain surgery, the VNS and soon I will be getting the DBS treatment soon.

All of these were done for one main reason. Seizure control. After the brain surgery it took roughly 8 weeks, plus or minus. I had to take it slow and easy. Pain killers on hand in case the pain was too intolerable. The the VNS didn’t take long at all for recovery. Can’t answer for the DBS .

I have had surgery and am glad i did it. What made me decide to go with it was doing research on it. Went to various websites, asked 9999 questions with different doctors until i was comfortable enough to go with. Length, recovery and success/failure will depend on the testing involved one will go through to see if the person is a candidate for surgery. Everyone is different so it will vary from person to person.