Sorry friends it's been a while. I just wanted to let you guys know what's been going on w/ me. I just recently had brain surgery about 5 weeks ago. There was scar tissue that they wanted to remove only to find that the scar was too far in the area where they speech and memory comes from so they didn't want to mess around there. So they just stapled me back up. I started to have extremely bad headaches a few weeks later and went back to hospital, where they put me on some painkillers. I went back 1 week later for a follow up only to find that they was excess brain fluid that needed to be removed and that's what was causing the headaches. I just got back 1 1/2 weeks ago. Thankfully, the headaches are gone but now I'm back right where I started. I was having absence seizures about every 1-2 weeks and that's why I decided to have the surgery. The neurosurgeon recommended RNS therapy but after much research I wanted to wait until there was more research on it because I just didn't feel comfortable since it was still so new and I didn't want to have surgery to replace the battery ever 2 years. The neurosurgeon also recommended the VNS as an alternative. I'm just in a predicament because since I had such complications w/ the first surgery I don't want to mess around w/ another surgery. I'm almost at the point where I just want to keep taking my current medication and deal with the 1 episode I have ever 1-2 weeks, espcially since it doesn't interfere with my life too much. Any opinions or advice guys? Thanks.
Sam
Sam