What a concept, another Anita with Epilepsy!!!
In any case, I take 5000mg of Depakote and 194.4mg of Phenobarbital per day. I began having seizures as an infant in 1956. They went away and did not come again until the 80's (when I began working for the Postal Service). I have since retired on disability.
I haven't had very much luck losing weight, but I never thought it was the medication but rather my bad diet. I take so very many meds for other ailments also that I could not possibly determine which one causes any one of the many troubles! My neurologist did have me on dilantin at one time but I continued to have seizures until we settled on the current meds.
I have no idea whether mine are temporal lobe or not. I have only been told by my neuro man that my seizures do not have a "specific cause", that he could not see anything in the brain which caused them. He said I was lucky in that respect. Thankfully I have never suffered a seizure while driving. Mine initially occured only while sleeping (in the 80's). Afterward, when I began having them while awake, at work, etc. my doc stopped me from driving altogether (since the 90's).
Additionally, I do suffer depression. I have been told by folks I know and also seen ads which say that both the med and the illness could be the cause. I personally have no idea but simply take the meds for that & see my couselor.
Have no idea if this is the info you desire. Am sure that others have more information than I. Prayerfully, you will find what you seek.
Anita
I only know from experience that prior to having my seizures I had weird little "explosions" in the right front that felt like intense but short headaches concentrated in an area of about the size of a golf ball. I would tell people about it and said I thought I had a tumor (I guess almost jokingly, not so funny now) and people would laugh at me. I later had the hallucinations (hearing and taste) and had been having something like morning sickness for 10 years (13-23 no less). Turns out they think it is the right temporal lobe that is causing the seizures and I am not really sure why. I assume it is because this is where I feel something because my MRI's and EEG's are normal. When I would threw up I felt the pain, also this seemed to be the center of activity when I had an issue. This may help, if not sorry for being long winded.