Surviving brain surgery.

摘要

Brain surgery has completely changed my life. When I was asked to consider having brain surgery, I found myself faced with a huge decision. I would like to describe my experience of the whole process, in the hope that this will help others who find themselves in a similar situation.Although they were initially misdiagnosed as migraine auras, I had been having simple partial and complex partial seizures since I was about four years old. They were not correctly diagnosed as epilepsy until they started to develop into tonic-clonic seizures when I was 16 and started seeing a neurologist. 1 was prescribed a variety of beta-blockers and anti-convulsants in many combinations, but none of these seemed to control the seizures. None of the diagnostic tests I had - from what I remember, two EEGs, two CT scans, and two MRIs - revealed anything of any use. This was the way things were to continue for many years.