Hi Dee. Thanks for your response. I'm moving forward with getting the VNS. I know there is no guarantee but I think it's worth a shot. Any little bit that can help is going to be apreciated by me. I've been told it breaks down to 3rds. 1/3 of people get a great response and control seizures. 1/3 get somewhat of a response. and 1/3 get no response. If I can be in the first two, I'm happy. Plus, I really like that the side effects are pretty minimal. I can take a funny feeling in the throat over being a walking hallucinating zombie any day!