Looking for a morale boost

As someone studying the science behind epilepsy research, I can endorse CompMolNeuro's comment. I had multiple partial complex seizures for 17 years until I had a temporal lobectomy surgery that has stopped all of my seizures. I was able to have the surgery because I was lucky enough to have all of my seizures originate from a single region of my brain that could be removed without harming my ability to think. Your epilepsy might not be treatable with this same surgery, but there are many treatments available for different specific types of epilepsy. Your current neurologist might not know of all relevant treatments for you, so you might have success reaching out to a new neurologist on occasion. You also have the ability to shop around online for research studies being done by professionals on treatments that are new and being worked on. These are the type of treatment that have not been accepted enough for an MD to prescribe, but they have the ability to be very promising. Consider doing some searching for studies looking for patients with your type of epilepsy (as specific as you can define it anyway). Look into the risks associated with the study and decide whether those risks are worth taking for a possible solution to the troubles your epilepsy brings you.

The most important thing is to stay positive with whatever life has handed you. You can try your hardest to change it, but at the end of the day you still have to deal with what you have. I have an extremely hard time going back into my memories and picking out only the positive ones because that is not how I am able to think. I am able to deal with the other medical problems I face by doing my very best to not think about those medical problems in the current moment. I do this by distracting myself with a ton of jobs to do, and it works for me. You might have to find another way to distract yourself, but distraction is the best method that I recommend in order to deal with epilepsy in the current moment. If another seizure happens, then that's that and you don't have time or effort to waste stressing over it any more than you can. Do your very best to not obsess over it in the present time while you move on with your life and make strides with medical professionals to improve your condition.

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