Post-operative epilepsy after meningioma surgery can be treated by medication, neuromodulation therapy and psychotherapy.
1. Drug treatment: this is the most used and mature treatment method in clinical practice. If patients have epilepsy after meningioma surgery, they can be treated with drugs such as sodium valproate extended-release tablets, levetiracetam and lamotrigine tablets as prescribed by the doctor, so as to achieve the purpose of controlling or eliminating the postoperative epilepsy after meningioma surgery.
2. Neuromodulation therapy: It includes vagus nerve stimulation and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. This kind of treatment mainly adopts electrophysiological technology to improve the neurological function and metabolic process of the patient’s brain, so as to make his brain operation return to normal, thus controlling or eliminating postmeningioma epilepsy.
3. Psychotherapy: this method has certain clinical value for epilepsy after meningioma surgery. After meningioma surgery, many patients have not yet adapted mentally, which will induce epileptic symptoms. Therefore, the method of psychotherapy can help control epilepsy after meningioma surgery to a certain extent.
It is recommended that patients under the guidance of the doctor for the treatment of postmeningioma epilepsy, follow the doctor’s instructions for the use of medication, do not blindly use medication, so as not to cause discomfort.