Weekly Check in - How are you doing?

I’m new to this thread, and I’m hoping to find some help/new information.

I have been an epileptic for 20 years, due to a traumatic brain injury in 2001 (and the resulting craniotomy). Over the past year, I started having a new type of seizure activity (absence seizures). The seizures are happening multiple times a week, which is a higher frequency than I have ever experienced. After many years of seizures of varying kinds, and trying many different drugs, I agreed to start doing tests to explore the option of surgery. After my week-long EEG monitoring in March, the neurologist and neurosurgeon told me that they think my epilepsy is “curable” with brain surgery.

They just booked an intracranial EEG for me in July, and I’m very nervous. Has anyone had an IEEG? What was it like?

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