#rns surgery

Last night, if you had forgotten, I came with you pretty panicked since after my RNS surgery, I'd been having a LOT of trouble speaking/reading/finding my words/etc and i was trying to find out if anyone else if someone else if anyone else had anyone else had ever had this problem.

Unfortunately, I never got an answer on here. But i did got one for my neurosurgeon. If for some reason, one day, someone else has this same problem, I'll post what my said, maybe it will be of comfort:

"So what my doctor says is what she thinks is happening is that since they put both the the electrodes (from the SEEG surgery) and the leads (from the RNS surgery) in the same spot in the brain, there's definitely some irritation/a bit of swelling that's causing some language problems (bc the part of the brain the lead/electrodes is/was is IN the language center of the brain)

She said if i wanted to, she could give me a course of steroid to help the irritation, but she didnt think that they was necessary atm since i was getting, plus those can make it really hard to sleep and my sleep is already really fucked up anyway."

This is what MY doctor said, and at the moment i AM getting better and she said i probably WILL get better, over time, i just have to patient.

I do want to thank you for helping me when you could when I was scared. Im less scared now. I hope this helps someone else someone else be less scared. If someone have question Im happy to answer them

I had my surgery on the 6th and everything went okay and I’m healing fine. But I have a question for others who have had the surgery

I am having trouble speaking, typing, and reading out loud. I’m talking to my surgeon and I’ve had a CT scan and here is what she says:

“I didn't see any evidence of bleeding or anything like that. It is possible that you are having some swelling/irritation around the leads which can sometimes happen around the time of surgery. I didn't clearly see this on the scan but again subtle changes can be difficult to see because of the device so it is certainly possible that is the case.”

Has this happened to anyone else? I just wanted to know if anyone has experienced these issues.

Sorry if any of this hard to read, I’m having a trouble typing at the moment.