2 Questions- Controlled Medication Study/Brain Surgery

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Hi,

I wanted to know if anyone has done a controlled medication study for seizure

activity?

I posted a few weeks ago about sleep and insomnia, and we met with neuro today

to discuss options as we have tried almost all seizure medications for abnormal

epileptic activity that occurs only at night. (Ruby does not have classified

seizures as of now).

He wants to try a controlled study in the hospital for 4 days, delivering high

doses of steroids for calming her activity, and if that doesn't work we will do

another MRI and present her case for brain surgery--to remove the affected

tissue on the right side of the brain (where the PMG is--and where all the

irregular activity is coming from).

Of course this topic freaks me out--but then I may be wrong if someone had a

very positive experience with it to share? According to neuro, this tissue and

side of the brain in general is useless as all function seems to be coming from

the left (good) side of the brain. I never really thought of the pmg side as

useless since she is high functioning but quite interesting that the " good "

brain has taken over.

Any thoughts or experiences will be very appreciated!

Thanks so much,