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Can my seizure medicines be tapered off?
-ganglioglioma brain tumor surgery in 2004
-seizure episodes at night while sleeping (around 1 or 2 every year) till 2010.
-one seizure in 2012.
-In 2014, doctors decided to taper off valparin, 100mg each month.
- Had a relapse and had a seizure in 2015, again started medicines.
-Can my medicines be tapered off now?
-EEG normal, MRI normal
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Dr. Rajendra Aher
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