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The side effect of having surgery is bad memory, speech and others. I said no right away when my doctor told me to do it because its not 100% curable and it effects our memory very bad. But now after suffering the horrific memory lost and not being able to keep my memories, i am leaning more towards just doing the surgery. Does anyone know if our memory and speech gets worst after surgery, will it stay that way or it will get better over time? Will i be able to remember things after not having… read more
My neurologist has discussed surgical options with me and I'm I was leaving them as a last resort because it scares the crap out of me. But now I'm starting to run out of options with medications. So I have a question for those of you who have had experiences with surgery (preferably laser ablation or gamma knife). I'm an artist, and I suffer from seizures located in my right temporal lobe. Did any of you that had surgery in that area lose any artistic abilities? Thanks!
I havent had the surgery also have right temporal lobe gelastic seizures. What I have lost is an interest in reading books. I hope you dont lose the ability . that would devastate me.
What’s interesting is the upcoming biological explanation
So I’ve recent attended a support group-type thing at the hospital I’m due to have my op at and people who are thinking about having the op and people who have had the op attend so questions can be asked about anything. I think it’s just caused MORE worry for me! Just wanted to know what other problems people have had during and after surgery. Things like one guy mentioned to me that chewing has become difficult for him and another issue that was raised was sight...I had a rough idea that sight… read more
So your having a part of the hippocampus removed?
Thats the surgery I was offered, has anyone mentioned about the loss of memory and the fact that what you loose may be permanently lost?
That was… read more
I was diagnosed with FND when I was around 13 it causes several types of problems i can become unconciouse for no reason I might be unable to move a part of my body for periods of time the first I had… read more
I had no interaction issues. However, I also saw no real effect on memory. It sounded VERY promising
All of that being said: like so many other parts of this condition, results vary across… read more
Try and keep positive and try not getting over Stressed or any type of negative emotions.
Has anyone have there LTL hippocampus area removed ?
What did you feel like afterward, were you able to talk, were you dizzy etc...
How long did this all last.
I was told my seizures could jump to my rt brain once removed from lft because I have had them for so long.
@A MyEpilepsyTeam Member you are lucky. i use to have seizures every couple of hours. after the surgery i only have 1 spaceout seizure (auras) at night. that and when i am sick.
I have left front temporal lobe focal epilepsy originating from the hippocampus and amygdala. It started in my teens, then in my 20’s it went away. And in my 30’s it came back but now accompanied with memory problems. I am not talking about confusion and memory problems right after an episode. i have that too. Mine is that my memory of experiences in life slowly fade over time. I usually cannot remember a restaurant I visited a couple of months after I was there. Or a person I met. My episodes… read more
Martin3– I, too, deal with terrible memory issues, partly due to the TBI; but in recent years I’ve noticed a real deterioration in my ability to recall things even a few minutes later. I downloaded a… read more