Hi Doris,
What you asked is what I ask myself all the time also (smile). My surgery was 3 years 10 months ago. I'm 52 years old, since surgery have been asking so many people my age who don't have epilepsy about their memories and allot say their memories have gotten worse. So then I always ask myself how much of my poorer memory is caused by age, how much is surgery?
My poorer memory has severely affected my job! It began affecting my job immediately after I came back to work from surgery. My responsibilities at work have totally changed to where my memory is used less. I'm pretty much doing only repetitious work in the warehouse. I know I'm still at work simply because I've been there 23 years and they know how much I care about what I do. I know if I was hired today at this job, I wouldn't be able to hold it long. At work I'm not the same kind of person I used to be. My closest friend has epilepsy and her surgery has totally affected her memory also, big time! Her surgery was about as long ago as yours. It is so fricken frustrating in this technical world we all have to live in these days.
Doris, if you would like to keep in touch by email, maybe we can help each other in some way? You can email me at stephenpales@yahoo.com One thing that works with me is trying to keep my life so simple, so basic, staying away from learning new technical things. Learning simple things most times gets way to very frustrating!!! And most often stay away from learning new things. I freak out trying to learn new things. Call me a quitter or call me simply trying to stay away from the stress of way to often failing to learn or remember new imformation. For me I'm very glad to have had my surgery because so far I'm seizure free. Before surgery my cognitive levels where extremely poor just like after surgery. A year after surgery I asked to have another neuropsychological evaluation just like I did before surgery. The results where the same. But, my question is, if results where so poor before surgery in cognitive areas, could they actually have gotten worse? All I can do now is deal with it as it is now. And like I said, I keep life as simple and basic as I can staying away from areas my poor memory will affect life. Take care, keep a smile on your face!
Steve
--- In epilepsy@yahoogroups.com, "DorisY" <dorisellen@...> wrote:
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> I had left temporal about 13 years ago, and difficulty with short term memory is definately occuring. I was wondering if any others who also had the surgery might notice something similar. It is apprehensive since it makes me wonder how much worse is this going to get and is there anything I can do to change this. Your experience or opinion would be meaningful. Thanks.
> Doris
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