Patients with epilepsy often seek medical treatment in major hospitals across the country to cure the disease, and have tried various treatments, always expecting to find a drug with a secret formula for epilepsy qualities, or some kind of magical surgery that completely erases epilepsy like magic. This is a problem that many patients, and many doctors, struggle with. But the reality that needs to be recognized is that epilepsy is, after all, a chronic disease, and current medical technology is unlikely to solve the problem quickly and completely in the short term, and the following misconceptions should be avoided on the road to epilepsy care. 1. Believe in false advertising and fall into a medical scam. Due to the special nature of epilepsy, it is difficult for medical scams to be revealed immediately in front of patients, and some patients even feel that false surgeries and drugs are effective because of the implication and comforting effect. Patients should learn about the nature of the hospital’s attributes before visiting it, and go to a regular national tertiary hospital instead of a small private hospital or clinic whenever possible. It is best to ask the local citizens who know the situation, or the nearest local county or city hospital to the doctor with medical conditions. 2. Not understanding basic epilepsy knowledge. Epilepsy involves long-term treatment, prevention, and care. Without understanding epilepsy knowledge, it is impossible to establish a trusting and cooperative relationship with the doctor, to better control seizures in life, to prevent the damage caused by seizures, and to be more easily deceived and become a victim of medical traps. Patients with epilepsy and their families should take the initiative to learn about epilepsy and understand basic treatment and general knowledge of life to minimize the damage caused by epilepsy. Zhang Hua, Department of Neurosurgery, Tangdu Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University 3. Distrust of doctors and eagerness to achieve The most important thing is that you can get a good idea of what you’re looking for. The first thing you need to do is to get a good idea of what you are getting into. The most important thing is to understand the basic knowledge of epilepsy treatment and adhere to the treatment according to science in order to reduce the impact of seizures on life to the maximum extent. The actual fact is that you will not be able to get a good deal on your own. The doctor gave the prescription, more rely on the cooperation of patients and their families, if randomly stop changing drugs, resulting in huge fluctuations in the concentration of drugs in the blood, will induce seizures, or even worsen the condition to become intractable epilepsy. 5, do not pay attention to the prevention of epilepsy in life. In addition to reasonable treatment, attention should be paid to avoiding the triggering factors of epilepsy in life, such as: excessive fatigue, alcoholism, staying up late, drinking a lot of water, coffee, strong tea, overeating, excessive hunger, etc. 6, blindly believe in Chinese medicine. Although Chinese medicine began to treat epilepsy a long time ago, the effect of Chinese medicine treatment is not very clear until now, and the regular treatment still uses western medicine, so you should not have high expectations for Chinese medicine treatment. 7. Fear and avoidance of surgical treatment. The epilepsy surgery is already a relatively mature medical technology, and the epilepsy center of Tangdu Hospital has carried out epilepsy surgery for more than a thousand patients, with very few more serious surgical sequelae and never surgical deaths. To minimize the damage caused by epilepsy, patients who are suitable for surgery should have surgery as early as possible. 8. Minimally invasive treatment is simply emphasized. Most people prefer treatment without wounds to surgery and favor minimally invasive treatment. Minimally invasive treatment, if it refers to ray stereotactic therapy, still has its scientific basis, except that most do not have good results. The minimally invasive treatment that appears in many advertisements is a medical scam that steals the term. 9, lack of attention to epilepsy, dragging and delaying the disease. Especially in rural areas where medical conditions are slightly worse, many people who find symptoms of epilepsy do not pay attention to it and allow it to develop until they can’t stand it and seriously affect their lives before they want to get up and go to a big hospital. Eventually, this may lead to missing the best treatment time and delaying the condition. 10, encounter side effects, then discouraged, give up treatment. The occurrence of side effects does not mean the failure of treatment, on the whole, the side effects of most drugs are not obvious, even if there are serious side effects does not mean the complete failure of treatment, you can monitor the effect of drugs by detecting the concentration of drugs and routine checks, adjust the drugs under the guidance of doctors to avoid side effects, find the best dose for each person, the best drug may be a gradual adjustment process .