You can consult your doctor about performing an EEG to confirm or exclude epilepsy. If epilepsy is confirmed by these tests, then you have to identify the cause of epilepsy. Primary (idiopathic) epilepsy has no organic cause; it is probably genetically conditioned. Secondary (symptomatic) epilepsy there exists some organic reason for seizures such as a tumor, inflammation, vascular insult, parasitic cyst, vascular anomalies, etc. In this case,you may be requested to do a CT-scan or an MRI to detect one such cause. If there no cause presents itself, then doctors will diagnose the condition as idiopathic epilepsy; anti-epileptic drugs are the only treatment in this case. If there is an identifiable reason for epilepsy, then neurosurgical operation/intervention is reccommended when needed.