Taking Stock of Your Treatment

Your health care team is a key partner in your epilepsy treatment. You each have roles to play to make sure treatment is successful and you are living well with your epilepsy. Your health care team is responsible for evaluating your condition, prescribing treatment options and working with you to make sure you are receiving the best treatment possible.

In order to make sure your treatment is the best, you need to tell your health care team how you are doing. Are you experiencing any side effects? Are you able to do your day-to-day activities? You need to take stock of your treatment and quality of life, and tell your health care team how you are doing. We have provided a tool to help you with this.

Once you take stock, you need to be able to tell your doctor about how you feel and any concerns you may have. As we all know, time with your health care team can sometimes go quickly, and we all may think of things we wanted to tell them, but forgot – or didn’t feel we knew how to say the right way.

This part of our site will help you understand who your partners are on your health care team, what role they play as allies in your treatment, and how best to talk about some of the side effects or quality of life issues that may be on your mind when you go to the doctor’s office.