I’m awaiting the DBS as part of the preparation for my second surgery, I have complex partials, tonic clonic and generalised temporal lobe seizures

@ThereaSchreieck , The Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) didn’t approve the the DBS for Epilepsy, until 2018. But, the DBS was around, over here, since 1997 for Parkinson’s disease. I’ve have waited for 4yrs to have this done. My Epileptologist brought it up to me when the FDA was still approving it.

I have FocalSeizures .

1. Simple Focal seizures
2. Complex Focal Seizures
3. Secondary Generalized seizure

I have the second type .

I dont know why we dont have DBS in Austria, please let me know what kind of epilepsy you have and if it helped you.

I have also done the VNS ( Vagus Nerve Stimulation) and I just got home from the DBS ( deep brain stimulation )

I had a right temporal lobectomy, they put me on Keppra just after too and I was 6 years stable so I can’t really say for sure if it was the surgery or the meds, what I do know is that my memory is shot and I’ve lost part of my left peripheral vision, I don’t have tonic clonic seizures like I did before surgery so it’s possible it has changed them and caused them to be less severe.