My Parents don't think Its epilepsy they say that there not seizures but just episodes. i'm 18 years Old I started having my Attacks back November 1st 2007. What happens is I hear this humming noise and it eventually gets louder and louder and drowns out all the noise around me then I feel my self falling but can't do anything about it and just before I hit the ground I blackout and it usually only last about a minute or two but I have had at least 6-7 since November. I have been put on lamo-trigine 37.5 mg's 1 and a half in the morning and 1 at night I haven't had an attack since August about a week ago I went to see my neurologist and he said that they found on the eeg that I had a Left temporal Lobe flux and right then and there he said I had epilepsy. I am the youngest out of 4 kids my older siblings don't have any seizures the only person who does is my mom who has grand mal epilepsy. Threw the last almost 3 years I have had every test done I have had eeg's mri's ct's and echo cardiograms to rule out a heart problem I have had sleep deprived EEG's I heard about a surgery called temporal lobectomy and I was wondering what that entailed like I have read only 2% of patients have ever had lasting side effects but I know that you first have to be eligible to have the surgery done and if so am I?