What is the prognosis for someone with a seizure disorder due to a head injury?

Answer 1

With proper medication, diet and rest . . . the prognosis is excellent.

Answer 2

Drug therapy completely eliminates seizures in 1/3 of patients and greatly reduces the frequency of seizures in another 1/3. About 2/3 of patients with well-controlled seizures can eventually discontinue drugs without relapse.

Most patients with epilepsy become neurologically normal between seizures, although overuse of anticonvulsants can dull alertness. Progressive mental deterioration is usually related to the neurologic disease that caused the seizures. Left temporal lobe epilepsy is associated with verbal memory abnormalities; right temporal lobe epilepsy sometimes causes visual spatial memory abnormalities. The outlook is best when no brain lesion is demonstrable.

Answer 3

That depends entirely upon the individual patient, the extent of the injury, the severity of the seizures and the quality of the care. Each case is unique -- everything from poor to excellent.