Hi Roweena, In all likelihood the causes of your mothers seizures are a post operative condition and not the dex. Seizures caused by dex are very rare (she was on a higher level of it before the operation) The most likely causes of the seizures are scare tissue that cause short circuits or localized brain storms caused by damaged nerves in her neural pathways. Dex is used as an anti-inflammatory, reduces brain swelling after the operation. If she is taking it post operation then I would assume it is for radiation treatment either gamma or chemotherapy which also causes inflammation. It has also been found that inflammation can cause a normal cell to dump its mitochondria and therefore become cancerous (tumors can grow quickly by replication and can also convert normal tissue that surrounds them). I would question her doctor as to why she is on dex, asking lots of questions is important. There are Herbal treatments that could help but these should be approached with great caution as there is a lot of BS(unproven) claims made about them.
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