Seizure disorders brain surgery
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So after seeking 3 opinions from neurosurgeons, it looks like the consensus is that we should have my husband's 3 benign meningiomas treated with surgery removal. This is b/c of his young age (31) and the fact he's symptomatic (seizure and headaches). He doesn't fit into the typical mold - gender, age, amount of tumors and no family history. The biggest risk of surgery is that he may lose his sense of smell/taste.
The surgery is indeed dangerous, in that anytime you go into the brain, which is a very sensitive organ to intrusion, the operation alone will sometimes affect nearby parts of the brain.
Many people have tumors in their brains that physicians decide to leave there if they are not causing serious problems...altho your sister has had some significant problems. But anyway, these are usually slow-growing benign tumors, hence the waiting to see if her tumor changes in size.
no other tests have been ran just an EEG everything looked fine but my adviser (case manager) at the traumatic brain injury place i have gone to several times told me that a person can come back with a normal scan and it doesn't mean the EEG is correct. the EEG was done 2 years ago when symptoms weren't bad as well. my adviser also told me that my symptoms do not match with the TBI i had. TBI symptoms improve over the years not worsen.
father had a brain bleed on may 6 2009, did surgery removed bleed and right bone flap, does not open eyes on command or any other voice commands. does open eyes sometimes, for VERY short period of time, has very good movement on the right side but no movement on left side. dr. said he had seizuers, they now treat with medication. no seizures are present. will dad "wake up" more as time goes on? or will he stay like that?
I have had a cyst in my frontal lobe since I was 5 yrs old. The doctors mentioned that the cyst was dead due to excess of calcium. At age 5 I had a seizure but nothing was done about it. At age 13 I had two more seizures and thats when doctors put me on Tegretol 200mg. An MRI was taken at age 5 and at age 13, the size of the cyst remained the same. The seizures only occur while I am asleep. As of now the Tegretol has worked but pretty soon I wont have insurance to cover the medicine.
He had craniotomy surgery. my question has anyone fully recovered after such surgery?
I would have had surgery immediately, and had the tumor removed. Instead, because I had seizure activity for so many years, I had to have a larger resection, because seizure activity had spread due to scarring of tissue from yeras of chronic seizures despite multiple meds. So talk to your doc about a surgical workup, if your son's epilepsy has been refractory for more than a year, or has not been controlled with more than one medication.
In cases with epilepsy where the cyst appears to be under pressure, surgery should be considered, although it may not result in seizure control. The decision to operate is usually taken by a neurologist and/or neurosurgeon. If a cyst is determined to be causing symptoms or pressure in the head, it may be removed.
Hi,
Any trauma to the brain can result in seizures and brain surgery is traumatizing to the brain so seizures are fairly common after brain surgery. Anticonvulsants are usually prescribed to treat seizures after surgery. Short term memory loss can occur after brain surgery which may get better with time. I would still advise you to get a clinical evaluation done by your neurologist.
Keep us posted.
The correlation between head injury and the development of seizure disorders is not consistent. If brain injuries happen in infancy or at a very young age, then this may indeed have a bearing in the future development of seizures (but still, not all will have seizure disorders). Acquiring a head trauma that causes definitive cerebral contusion or anatomic brain abnormality may give rise to future sezires but blut force traumas causing concussions do not consistently do so.
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An epileptic cannot have both a complex partial seizure disorder and a generalized seizure disroder. People with a generalized seizure disorder are usually born with it, while people with partial or complex partial get it sometime during thier life. Generlaized seizures occurr over the entire brain, while complex partial only occurr in a section of the brain.
I have complex partial seizures that occurr in my right temporal lobe. They started from a head injury I got when I was three.
Thanks for replying so quickly. they did a blood analysis in the hospital last week but I might see a nephrologist for another opinion, as you suggested. I
I have medium to low blood pressure and am pretty healthy-- except for the "partial seizure" diagnosis. \Maybe the seizure was caused by the damaged cells in my brain (I did not have neuro surgery after the stroke).
I hope it is possible for seizures to stop eventually. I would hate for this to be a life-long problem.
Meaning that if an EEG is done during an attack (such as the convulsion you describe above) and the EEG shows the seizure in the brain waves, then the seizure can be confirmed. In other people, convulsions occur but these are due to stress and not true seizures coming from epileptic activity in the brain, in which case the EEG will not show epileptic activity during the convulsion.
I had brain surgery when I was 14 years old after the blood vessels hemoraged. The surgery left scar tissue on my brain that began to cause seizures around 6 years ago. I have had petite and grand mal seizures. They typically would happen every 3-6 months.
All of a sudden, with no changes to my meds or anything, they have increased to about 1 every few weeks or month.
Since 1 year and half, i'm having some problem with myself. I know i am a stressed person, i always have been like this. But the my point is that i never had problem living this way before.
Here are my concerns :
- I have eyes disorders, it's hard for me to keep focusing something, it's like a convergence and it's really annoying.Need to move my head sometime to get rid of this and be back to normal.
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