Description: Whether your epilepsy treatment is a success or a failure often depends on whom you ask. Your doctor may judge it by the numbers: How many seizures do you have if you take so many milligrams of medication? If more milligrams or more medications equal fewer seizures, that's progress, and no seizures at all equals success. You or your family, on the other hand, may see a different equation. You'd certainly like to have no seizures, but you'd also like to be alert, awake, and free of the other physical and emotional effects that seizure medicines so often produce.