How do you get rid of temporal lobe seizures?
Treatment
- Medications. Many medications are available to treat temporal lobe seizures.
- Surgical or other procedures. Vagus nerve stimulation.
- Pregnancy and seizures.
- Contraception and anti-seizure medications.
- Personal safety.
- Seizure first aid.
- At home.
- At work.
What do temporal lobe seizures feel like?
A sudden sense of unprovoked fear or joy. A deja vu experience — a feeling that what’s happening has happened before. A sudden or strange odor or taste. A rising sensation in the abdomen, similar to being on a roller coaster.
What do temporal seizures feel like?
What causes temporal seizures?
Often, the cause of temporal lobe seizures remains unknown. However, they can be a result of a number of factors, including: Traumatic brain injury. Infections, such as encephalitis or meningitis, or a history of such infections.
What are the symptoms of temporal lobe seizure?
Sometimes temporal lobe seizures impair your ability to respond to others (partial complex or focal dyscognitive seizures). This type of temporal lobe seizure usually lasts 30 seconds to two minutes. Characteristic signs and symptoms include: Loss of awareness of surroundings.
Do temporal lobe seizures damage the brain?
Complications. Over time, repeated temporal lobe seizures can cause the part of the brain that’s responsible for learning and memory (hippocampus) to shrink. Brain cell loss in this area may cause memory problems.
Can temporal lobe epilepsy be cured?
Surgery is another common treatment for people with temporal lobe epilepsy. It’s used to eliminate or reduce the number of seizures a person experiences. All surgeries carry risks, however, and an unsuccessful surgery may actually create neurological problems.
Can EEG rule out epilepsy?
A normal EEG does not rule out the possibility of epilepsy. In fact, since the EEG records only a 30-minute snapshot of the brain’s activity, many EEGs are normal. The sensitivity of the EEG—that is, the likelihood that the test will pick up abnormality—increases each time the test is run.