Aolusblue,

I can't fully agree with what you had to say. I had brain surgery twice to have scar tissue removed from the left temperal lobe. The first one was back in 1986 and the second one was in 1998. They both went well. After the first surgery, I went from barely being able to talk due to speech and memory loss to being able to talk like a normal person. The seizures came back due to technology not being good enough to be able to remove all of the scar tissue so that's why I had the second brain surgery.

When I started seeing a new epileptologist due to some new problems, I went to see an ENT also. The first ENT talked about doing surgery to straighten out the bone in the middle of the nose. I also have some polyps that need to be removed. After talking to someone who had the surgery done, I turned it down because I have sleep apnea and wouldn't be able to use my CPAP machine for 3 days. When I went to see a new ENT, I brought this subject of to him and he told me that I'd be better off not to have the surgery because it could cause me to have problems with more seizures. As you can see, there are two sides to the story. Just because things went well for you doesn't mean that everyone should be doing the same thing.