Can Epilepsy Be Completely Cured?
I do not want to live with seizures for the rest of my life. The word “cure” is not yet in the epilepsy vocabulary, regardless of the age it began. But there is still quite a bit of good news for people with epilepsy. With the right medication and avoidance of things that trigger seizures, most patients can control the disease and experience few or no seizures. Seizures are the main symptom of epilepsy. A seizure occurs when the brain’s normal transmission of electrical impulses is interrupted by what is described as a “storm” of electrical activity. The disturbance is sudden and brief. Depending on the nature of the seizure, it may cause alterations in consciousness, movement (muscle control), and/or loss of sensations, including vision and hearing. Although there are more than a hundred possible causes of epilepsy, in the majority of cases, a cause is never found. Epilepsy of unknown cause, or idiopathic epilepsy, is more common among children and young teen-agers. A few of the possi
