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Location: Tampa Bay Region, Florida
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Originally Posted by Roy Browning
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"According to the brain mapping, my brain never quiets down."
Have you tried a Valium or a Xanax?
-Joe
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Joe - Neurofeedback is a type of a alternative
professional Medical care that works that helps
quiet the brain down; and not only that they've
(Neuroscience) have found that it also helps to
quiet and/or minimize or eliminate epileptic seizures,
calming the brain down, in other words - "Silencing
the Lambs" and putting the brain back in synchro-
nization and back in functional order.
This work is performed with a Neurofeedback Specialist
who usually is found in the same Department in Neurology
in a lot of places, and in other places they have their
own office - and they work WITH the Epileptologist or
Neurologist.
The Patient is never taken off of their anti-epileptic
drug(s) - it is all worked together and titrated off
slowly and monitored, and it requires teamwork effort.
Some Patients can be removed from their med(s) and
while others their med(s) can be reduced greatly all
because of the Neurofeedback.
This is GOOD NEWS; for many reasons especially when
anti-epileptic drugs are pretty harsh on the body and
there just really isn't any 'safe' ones around, plus in
addition the side effects that comes with it - all greatly
minimized, especially for the Patient if they can be
titrated down, and it's even better if they can be reduced
down where they're off on so many, to a mono (single)
at a low dosage, or even better when they're on none
and being seizure-free!
Neurofeedback is costly; and the battle now is to get
Insurances to recognize it and to accept it as a form of
Medical Care. They know for a fact - it WORKS.
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In addition - Your recommendations of Xanax or Valium,
both in which are Benzos - aka Benzodiazepines; are
all in the same family - when actually Diastat, Klonopin,
and Ativan are used to treat Epilepsy are in the same
family of Benzos, and yes, sometimes Valium is used in
treating Epilepsy.
This Benzos are normally used when the patient is unable
to tolerate Barbiturates - usually Phenobarbital is the old
anti-epileptic drug that's been around for ages; the Neuro
or Epi would then revert to Benzos in lieu. Only the Doctor
can make the decision of what is BEST for the patient.
We DO NOT recommend medications on this NeuroTalk
Forum at all nor at any other Epilepsy Forums either.
All forums strongly will discuss a medication only when
the Original Poster makes mention or inquires about it.
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HOWEVER - People are allowed to explore into other
areas of alternative treatments; and in the field of
Neuroscience - they are doing just exactly that: Peering
into the doors of alternative methods and finding out they
DO work. People do have the right to ask and inquire about
such; for there are people out there whom have been
treated and received high success from it when all other
options have failed.
Hope all of this information has helped a lot in details
and in depth!
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Sharon
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" Vujà Dé - The feeling you've
never been in here before!"
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