Epilepsy is still not controlled by medication needs to be adjusted medication or can be treated by surgery.
1. Adjustment of medication: epilepsy after taking drugs still have frequent seizures, suggesting that epilepsy is not well-controlled, need to adjust the antiepileptic drugs, such as drugs may not have reached the effective blood concentration of appropriate increase in dosage, or a combination of other antiepileptic drugs, commonly used drugs are sodium valproate, carbamazepine, phenytoin sodium, topiramate, zolvetiracetam, etc., used to the period of close observation of the side effects of the drug.
2. Surgery: After a long period of formal monotherapy, or two antiepileptic drugs to reach the maximum tolerated dose, as well as after a formal, combined treatment is still not effective, surgical treatment can be considered, such as hippocampus resection, epileptic foci excision, corpus callosotomy, etc., but the surgical treatment has the corresponding indications, not all epilepsy can be surgical treatment.
Patients with epilepsy, it is recommended to standardize the use of medication under the guidance of a professional physician, undifferentiated patients may need to assist in surgical treatment to control the condition.