Current Treatment Options
The goal of treatment is to help you live a more normal life by eliminating seizures and causing as few side effects as possible. However, after the failure of at least two anti-seizure drugs, the chances of achieving this goal decrease significantly.
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Many patients suffer from uncontrolled seizures, try drug after drug, and experience poor quality of life for more than 20 years before they are offered non-drug treatments such as:
- Brain surgery: Usually offered to patients who have severe seizures that cannot be controlled with medications. Several types of surgery may be performed, depending on each patient’s type of seizures and the part of the brain that is affected.
- Ketogenic diet: A doctor-supervised high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet that may help young children reduce and sometimes stop seizure activity.
- Vagus nerve stimulation: A unique non-drug treatment in which a small device that works like a pacemaker helps to control seizures by regulating electrical activity within the brain. VNS Therapy™ has been used by more than 40,000 patients worldwide.
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