Treatment helping Central Valley native work through epilepsy

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- For his full life, Jose Meza learned to unrecorded with epilepsy.

"I couldn't perchance bash everything that different kids oregon different radical had the state to do," helium said. "I was much constricted and a small much guarded arsenic a small kid."

Doing mundane tasks similar going to the store oregon mowing the tract was not conscionable hard, but besides scary. Meza feared that a seizure could hap astatine immoderate moment.

"One happening astir having epilepsy is you ne'er cognize erstwhile it's going to hit," helium said. "It could deed astatine immoderate time."

Meza tells Action News immoderate medications helped get his epilepsy nether power but aft immoderate time, it stopped working.

That's erstwhile helium heard astir Vagus Nerve Stimulation therapy oregon VNS, which uses an implantable instrumentality to stimulate a nervus connected the neck.

"This magnet, I conscionable swipe it on the device," helium said. "The instrumentality I person is close present and you conscionable swipe it. It sends a pulse to the vagus nerve, and that's the ligament connected to my vocal cords."

Meza went connected VNS backmost successful 2019.

Since getting connected the treatment, he's recovered much bid of mind.

He adjacent took a travel to the East Coast.

"Two years ago, we went to New York," Meza said. "We went to New York for astir a week, and it went disconnected with nary problems astatine all."

Now, Meza gets to afloat unrecorded beingness with his woman and their 2 dogs, without interest of different seizure.

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