Epilepsy: A Fearful Disease That Can Affect Anyone - Treatment Reviews at St. Mary's Hospital

What do you think about epilepsy? I will leave a review of the epilepsy symptoms, the moment they appear, the cause, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment. Then, let's go into Bonon.

You can think of it as a brain disease. The brain nerve cells temporarily become abnormal, causing sudden loss of consciousness, seizures, and excitement.

To put it more simply, our brains use certain stimulus signals to make us move and act. For example, if you use a remote control to move a robot or a toy car, the signal, that is, the control is done correctly, but the stimulus is not transmitted properly, so it malfunctions. In other words, you can think of it as the signal not being transmitted properly.

So why do we get epilepsy? It can be caused by various factors such as complications during childbirth, malnutrition due to nutritional imbalance, head trauma, toxic substances, brain infection, brain damage, tumors, stroke, and degenerative changes in the brain. Epilepsy occurs differently depending on age. In my case, it is said to be idiopathic and it is said to occur mainly in young and middle-aged people.

Symptoms are mostly behavioral seizures. Some people have epilepsy that causes seizures all over their body, but some people only have seizures in one arm. These are called motor seizures. People who have epilepsy symptoms may temporarily collapse and lose their memory. They may become dazed, foam at the mouth as you all know, and then collapse. They have seizures that cause their whole body to twitch and collapse.

So I have epilepsy where I can either just move my eyebrows or have a full body seizure where I have a grand mal seizure. Luckily, I can only move my eyebrows.

I visited the hospital to get diagnosed. I need to tell the doctor how often I have epileptic seizures, whether I remember during the seizures, and the severity of the behavioral seizures. I also need to tell the doctor how long I have the epileptic behavioral seizures. Since it is a symptom that occurs in various parts of the brain, I do a lot of tests, including electroencephalography, brain magnetic resonance imaging, and positron emission tomography.

Treatment methods Treatment is largely divided into two methods: drug therapy and surgery. I don't need surgery. Most epilepsy patients are treated with medication. Some people need to take the medication for a long time, and epileptic seizure symptoms can recur when they stop taking the medication. This varies from patient to patient. I received only drug therapy because I was able to treat it early. They say that if there is no relief with drug therapy, surgery is necessary. It is mainly an anticonvulsant. Depending on the patient's condition, you should consult with a doctor and take the appropriate amount and timing of the medication. Start by taking a small amount and gradually increase the amount. Fortunately, I was fine with a small amount. Epilepsy can get better if you treat it with your own will and actively.