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For work, I just learned how to do a new part of my job but when I got back to work, I forgot almost everything I learned. People I just met in the last year I remembered the person but not the name.
For me, the surgery 12 years ago helped my brain find many of the "missing files." When you have surgery, you need to sort through all the files that were up there. The easiest way to explain it is that when we have a seizure, all the loose paper gets thrown into a "junk file." This calms the brain, and then, when you're calm, the brain will sometimes begin to sort those files; the more seizures, the less it sorts. When I had my brain surgery, literally the entire storage and everything was resorted one "piece of memory at a time". This was time-consuming, but if you let it happen, it brings back memories you didn't even know you had. I am still seizure-free and doing all kinds of things that they told me would never happen. Don't let them tell you what you can and can't do; keep pressing on!
Memory changes after epilepsy surgery can vary quite a bit from person to person — there's no single answer that fits everyone.
Research shows that the type of surgery and which part of the brain is involved plays a big role in what kind of memory is affected:
- Left temporal lobe surgery tends to affect verbal memory Show Full Answer
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