Patient's question:
I had a car accident before, which injured my head, leaving behind post-traumatic epilepsy. I used to have a classmate with epilepsy, and I've seen his condition during a seizure. Every time I think about myself possibly experiencing the same thing, I feel very upset. Moreover, he has been treated for many years without any improvement. But today, someone said it can be cured. Can epilepsy be cured?Doctor's answer:
If it is pediatric epilepsy, if it is discovered early and treated with timely antiepileptic drugs, there is a certain chance that it can gradually be cured and it may not be necessary to take medication for life. However, since you have epilepsy at your current age, it is generally not possible to cure epilepsy, and the only option is to take medication for life to control the recurrence of epilepsy and reduce the harm it causes to the brain. The treatment usually adopted is based on antiepileptic drug therapy.