Surgery is not used just as a last resort to treat epilepsy.

As is true of all drugs, the medications used to treat epilepsy have side effects.

The children usually take the drug, an anticonvulsant that has long been used to treat epilepsy, every day for two years.

They generally do not respond well to medicines used to treat epilepsy.

This information is essential in planning surgery to treat epilepsy.

Learn more about drugs used to treat epilepsy here.

Learn about the different kinds of surgery used to treat epilepsy.

Even though medicine is the most common approach to treating epilepsy, it does not always work.

Surgery is not an "if all else fails" approach to treating epilepsy.

Of the many drugs in this class, only a few are used to treat epilepsy: