Dear user,
75-80% patients with epilepsy can be treated with medication alone. But 20-25% patients do not respond even to multiple drugs. Such cases are known as uncontrolled or refractory epilepsy.
Your wife falls in this group.
Every seizure episode is potentially life threatening and has side effects and sometimes leaves permanent damage in the brain.
Frequent seizures attacks also recruit new areas of brain and make them epileptogenic. Such frequent attacks disrupt the daily life of the patient and their near and dear.
Lastly, the economic burden of frequent seizures is huge.
Next Steps
You should meet a reputed Neurophysician or Neurosurgeon interested in treating Epilepsy in your area.
Health Tips
Refractory epilepsy can sometimes be cured or made manageable with epilepsy surgery on the brain which either removes the area producing seizures or disconnects the abnormal area from the normal brain. Sometimes a procedure known as vagus nerve stimulation works for specific types of refractory epilepsy.