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Is there a total cure for seizures?

Posted by yeye2020 @yeye2020, Mar 30, 2018

Am yeye2020
my son has been battling with seizure for 22 years and he was under carbamazepin -Tegretol.
please, is there total cure for seizure

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12271997 | @12271997 | Jun 8, 2018
In reply to @brjudevo79 "HI My Name is Br Jude Vo. I am 39. I have had seizures since I..." + (show)
@brjudevo79

HI My Name is Br Jude Vo. I am 39. I have had seizures since I was 7. I am on topamax 200, Keppra xr 750, & Tegretol xr 400. I have been on this combination now for almost 6 years. It has stopped my seizures but the side affect is that I have really bad memory. I would like to go back to college But I am hoping I can have the surgery & get off of the meds so I can go back to school. any suggestions? Help!!! does the Vagus Nerve Stimulator work in place of meds?

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VNS works for some people not everyone. My seizures it would not work said my dr. I friend I have where seizures are coming from brain stem it does, but everyone is different

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Leonard | @jakedduck1 | Jun 22, 2018

@Brjudevo First of you all I can’t understand why you’d ever consider something as invasive and dangerous as brain surgery if your seizures are controlled. You may come out of surgery with a worse memory than you have now. I’ve known lots of people who went to college and did very well while on meds.
Speaking of the VNS studies show approximately a 50% seizure reduction in 20 to 55% in some patients with some people with no improvement in others. In addition most people have side effects. Poor odds in my opinion.

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12271997 | @12271997 | Jun 25, 2018
In reply to @jakedduck1 "@Brjudevo First of you all I can’t understand why you’d ever consider something as invasive and..." + (show)
@jakedduck1

@Brjudevo First of you all I can’t understand why you’d ever consider something as invasive and dangerous as brain surgery if your seizures are controlled. You may come out of surgery with a worse memory than you have now. I’ve known lots of people who went to college and did very well while on meds.
Speaking of the VNS studies show approximately a 50% seizure reduction in 20 to 55% in some patients with some people with no improvement in others. In addition most people have side effects. Poor odds in my opinion.

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I hope you're not talking to me b/c you don't know my seizure history. I did go to college and have a BS in elem ed. with concentration in history. Meds were not working so my seizures were not controlled. I've had several 1000 seizures in my life and I'm in my 40's. VNS wouldn't work either is what we were told so I decided to try the surgery. I never taught except in my Church but seizures are being controlled. I am now taking 4 meds and I now have a son. God has had the wheel in my life

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Leonard | @jakedduck1 | Jun 25, 2018
In reply to @jakedduck1 "@Brjudevo First of you all I can’t understand why you’d ever consider something as invasive and..." + (show)
@jakedduck1

@Brjudevo First of you all I can’t understand why you’d ever consider something as invasive and dangerous as brain surgery if your seizures are controlled. You may come out of surgery with a worse memory than you have now. I’ve known lots of people who went to college and did very well while on meds.
Speaking of the VNS studies show approximately a 50% seizure reduction in 20 to 55% in some patients with some people with no improvement in others. In addition most people have side effects. Poor odds in my opinion.

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Yes I was talking to you but was speaking in generalities. How many seizures and what type did you have prior to your operation?? Congratulations on your education.

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12271997 | @12271997 | Jun 27, 2018

mostly complex partial coming from the left temporal lobe. One time before the surgery I came to the hospital because of the seizures and their frequency to be monitored by machines and tests. I had 181 seizures in a 10 day period with 2 heart attacks, but God wasn't ready for me. The drs induced me into a coma to get the seizures to stop. I woke up I don't know how many days later but I decided that something had to be done. We knew from the testing where the seizures were coming from and what had to be done so I decided to improve our lives by going through the left temporal lobe lobotomy and removal of left hippocampus that I found out was smaller than it should be. I had to go through a lot of therapies as a result-ot,st, pt and be at a nursing home to have it done, but this year I've had 2 seizures. I'm going to see a speech therapist for anomic aphasia on July 3rd

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