Ground breaking epilepsy device provides Colorado patient relief | Kaiser Permanente
Channel: Kaiser Permanente
Date: 21/06/2016

For Sharon Hostetter, the unexplained seizures were frightening in the extreme. But Dr. Danielle McDermott, Kaiser Permanente neurologist and epileptologist, was determined to figure out what was going on in Sharon’s head.

After spending five days under close observation in an Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, the diagnosis was in…epilepsy in both the right and left temporal lobes. “I felt in a way, ‘Oh, my God!,’ finally someone knows what’s wrong with me,” said Sharon. “But at the same time, I was completely devastated.”

Dr. McDermott recommended that Sharon have a responsive neurostimulator implanted in her head in late 2015. This was only the second time this procedure was performed Colorado. Find out how the device works, how Sharon helps Dr. McDermott monitor its performance from home, and the difference it’s made in Sharon’s life.

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