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I'm not sure if this will be short or long, we'll see where it goes.
I have wanted to be a surgeon since I was an extremely little kid. I assume that's normal but I guess I never got over my fascination with surgery. I had always planned on doing that or something like it.
I started high school and got really serious about my grades to assure that I could stay on the career path that I wanted to be in. However, not that far in, I had a seizure. To be precise, I had 2 seizures within an hour apart. One at school, one right after I got to the hospital. They were tonic-clonic seizures and I never had another one after that. It was attributed to the vyvanse I was taking at the time and the hospital neurologist left me and my parents confused. So, after talking to my regular doctor, he said to go see X neurologist at Y place. So I went there and he said he was almost sure it was the vyvanse but he wasn't confident in the regular 30-min EEG that I had done at the hospital, so we scheduled a sleep study. He also wanted an MRI instead of a CT. So, I went in and got those tests done, while starting on a new med which he said, although not being attributed to lowering the seizure threshold (at least as much as vyvanse), it was attributed to a side effect of twitching. So I started that med and sure enough I was twitching, mainly in my legs, which I associated with the new med. So fast forward to my appointment, normal MRI, abnormal EEG. He said I have seizure disorder that has a good chance of "going away" but he wanted me on Keppra for a couple years until we reconsider (probably with another sleep-study :|)
So, my question is, if all goes well for me in the next couple years, and I no longer have an active seizure disorder, do I still have a good shot at becoming a surgeon? Is it something that could be overlooked if many years from now and I have been 10 years seizure free, or should I reconsider my desired career path.
Thanks.
I have wanted to be a surgeon since I was an extremely little kid. I assume that's normal but I guess I never got over my fascination with surgery. I had always planned on doing that or something like it.
I started high school and got really serious about my grades to assure that I could stay on the career path that I wanted to be in. However, not that far in, I had a seizure. To be precise, I had 2 seizures within an hour apart. One at school, one right after I got to the hospital. They were tonic-clonic seizures and I never had another one after that. It was attributed to the vyvanse I was taking at the time and the hospital neurologist left me and my parents confused. So, after talking to my regular doctor, he said to go see X neurologist at Y place. So I went there and he said he was almost sure it was the vyvanse but he wasn't confident in the regular 30-min EEG that I had done at the hospital, so we scheduled a sleep study. He also wanted an MRI instead of a CT. So, I went in and got those tests done, while starting on a new med which he said, although not being attributed to lowering the seizure threshold (at least as much as vyvanse), it was attributed to a side effect of twitching. So I started that med and sure enough I was twitching, mainly in my legs, which I associated with the new med. So fast forward to my appointment, normal MRI, abnormal EEG. He said I have seizure disorder that has a good chance of "going away" but he wanted me on Keppra for a couple years until we reconsider (probably with another sleep-study :|)
So, my question is, if all goes well for me in the next couple years, and I no longer have an active seizure disorder, do I still have a good shot at becoming a surgeon? Is it something that could be overlooked if many years from now and I have been 10 years seizure free, or should I reconsider my desired career path.
Thanks.
Is this like some kind of policy or something?
