One of the hospital docs last week mentioned electroconvulsive therapy for refractory seizures (it was a bad week- not typical....but that's all they saw). To me, ECT is out of the dark ages, and I'd never heard of it for seizures, even with the snooping around the medical field for years. I don't want volts of electricity going through my brain without some background that says there's more than a 75% chance it will help.

She also brought up the VNS, but that also spooks me. My autonomic system is messed up enough. I'm leary of having programmed shocks going through my vagus nerve. (or around it, or whatever).

I want to let the med changes have some time to help first before talking about zapping me. I would agree to go to an epilepsy center when I get Medicare/private fee for service insurance (if they pay). But I'm not ready to be fried, or get the implant yet- even though I've heard ok things about the VNS....never heard squat about ECT for seizures.....:confused: