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Has Anyone On Here Had Brain Surgery On Their Right Temporal Lobe?
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posted November 17, 2023
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Yes. It did nothing for me besides ruin my left peripheral vision. I'm never having brain surgery again.

posted November 20, 2023
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Who has had a temporal lobectomy on their right side? Did you find it beneficial?

posted November 18, 2023
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I had 2 right temporal lobe lobectomies, removing 13% of dead brain tissue of the 18% of it. The reason they didn't remove all 18% is because some of it still had some action if it was removed it would cause other problems not in effect. The reason they didn't remove some of the other brain tissue was because it was to close to live brain tissue. It was significantly helpful for me. I was having 30-40 seizures a month, losing bowl movements after most of them, severe suicidal depression hallucinations, migraine, headaches and extreme tiredness. The first surgery knocked my seizures down to about 3-4, stopped losing bowl movements and hallucinations, and reduced the strength of others, 2nd surgery stopped headaches and tiredness, and depression didn't seem have any effect on seizures. I also had a VNS implant. That also didn't seem to do anything for me. That may because I don't have auras before a seizure. I say that because the VNS is an implant next to the left shoulder on the chest. They set it to send out an electrical impulse to either intercept or weaken the strength of one being sent out from the area of the brain it is coming from. They give you a magnet you're able to set it off whenever you have an aura. Since I don't have auras I'm sure many seizures snuck thru the automatic impulses sent out. What knocked down number or strength of my seizures to approx. 1-2 a month was a seizure service alert dog. Wish you the best!!!

posted March 15
A MyEpilepsyTeam Member

Iā€™m so sorry to hear that thank you for your feedback. I really appreciate it!!

posted November 20, 2023
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