Patient stories

“While I learned how to walk and speak again, frequent seizures made it impossible to live a productive life,”

“For 12 years, I struggled with constant seizures, took multiple medications and visited countless neurologists before my primary care physician recommended I visit the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at CentraState. Once I met with Dr. Megdad M. Zaatreh [MD, board-certified neurologist and director of the Epilepsy Center], my life changed for the better.”

“I have regained my life,”

“I work out at the gym and maintain a very active schedule, which wouldn’t be possible without the care and expertise provided by the CentraState staff. There’s no other place I would recommend to patients suffering from chronic seizures.”

“every time Dr. Zaatreh upped Aaron’s medication, his speech got better. He’s talking in sentences now. If we hadn’t found Dr. Zaatreh, we could still be thinking that Aaron just had a speech delay.”

“Aaron was very, very shy before he was speaking. I think that had a lot to do with not being able to communicate with people,”

“to be more proactive than reactive, if there is a speech or developmental issue.”

“Thankfully, Aaron had the febrile seizure or we would never have known about his seizure disorder.”

“I got better at making the episodes less noticeable,”

“I would just pretend I was having a muscle cramp, because the spasms usually happen when I increase my activity or I’m playing sports, but then my mom noticed an episode, and I decided I was tired of trying to hide it.”

“I’ve had a lot of experience with different doctors, but Dr. Zaatreh really stood out,”

“He asked questions no one had asked before and took so much time with Dalton. I knew before he even ordered testing that he would figure out what this was.”

“I thought for a while that the episodes were something just in my head and that I needed to fix them myself,”

“To hear an actual diagnosis and to learn it could be controlled with medication was a huge weight lifted off my shoulders.”