Fellow members, my adult son has had temporal lobe epilepsy for about 20+ years and has been on about every med imaginable without any long term success. In 2021 Mayo preformed laser ablation and that helped reduce daily seizures about 20%. Then in Jan 22 he had a VNS implant. that too reduced some maybe another 25%. But occasionally he suffers from multiple seizures back to back. Mayo wants us to consider a Deep Brain Stimulator. Would to love to hear any feedback about DBS from the community. As for supplemental treatment using CBD and THC Mayo doctors have been pretty gun shy about including that in their medical plan.
My son has a medical MJ card and weekly uses one of the combination CBD and THC and despite our best tracking, we can not imperially tell you that neither any of them work 100% as many have prophesied. Epilepsy has just too many variables to draw untested conclusion. Generally speaking it does seems to lower his over-all stress and perhaps lessen the stress trigger. Too bad that some institution(like Mayo) doesn't begin a long term controlled study on the benefits of using THC and CBD.