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Seven years ago Jack Ray had a brain tumor removed. After the surgery, he began having repeated seizures considered epilepsy. Like most people, he doesn't remember them.
Oh, I felt all right.
But his wife will never forget.
Scary, very scary because you don't know what to do.
Doctor James Valeriano (vuh-LAIR-ee-AN-oh) is a neurologist who specializes in epilepsy. He says most people develop epilepsy as children and adolescents, but after age 60, the number of new cases rises sharply. That means aging baby boomers are at risk.
It's likely we're gonna see a fairly substantial amount, more people with epilepsy in that older group than we've seen before, just because of the numbers.
Many medications control seizures, but they only work in about 65-percent of patients.
So about 35% of people are not well controlled with medications and that hasn't changed much, even though in the last maybe 7, 8 years there's been a substantial amount of new medicines that have come out.
Plus finding the right drug gets harder for older patients because they often take medication for other health problems.
These are all his pills for the week.
So you have to be careful with drug interactions. You have to be careful with the doses that you give older people um and you have to be attuned to the idea that that what ,what you're seeing may be side effects.
It took Jack trial and error, but he finally found a drug that works for him.
I just take it as it comes.
Now, even on bad days, he's seizure-free. For WebMD, I'm Damon Meharg.
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