My AVM was in the right frontal lobe. I asked my dr. what that part of the brain controls. He said impulse control and judgement. This information is really affecting me. I am going through a lot of changes in my life right now and keep second guessing my decisions because I am worried my judgement was affected with the surgery. Has anyone else experienced this or have any advice? I almost wish my AVM affected something more conrete where I could see what was affected like speech or motor skills or something, but this is ridiculous cause I am unable to judge whether or not I have poor judgement.
Temporal and Frontal lobes share a lot of the same functions and I have decided I will blame all of my questionable decisions on the AVM. Now that it is gone I blame the surgery. 
Ok in all seriousness I wouldn’t worry about it. I only know you from here, but in the words you type you are a very level headed educated woman who knows more about life in the time you have been here than most people would be able to learn if they lived to be 100. If there are any big decisions you need to make sit down with a good friend and ask them for advice. Don’t doubt yourself. You have made it this far and beat the odds!
After my AVM surgery at the NIH/NINDS in 2002 the surgeon Dr. John Heiss told me
that he removed the AVM. 3 months after a RIGHT TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY
the seizures started again. I went Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, MD.
The doctor at Hopkins told me after reviewing all the MRI’s, Scans,
X-rays, hand written records from the NIH/NINDS that the AVM was
not removed as DR. JOHN HEISS told me. It’s in my RIGHT FRONTAL
LOBE.
So this is proof about “I am unable to judge whether or not I have poor judgement.”
My poor judgement was to trust Dr. William Theodore
and Dr. John Heiss at the NIH / NINDS.
Wow…sorry to hear that. I go for an angiogram in a few weeks and I guess I will see for sure that everything was removed. Good Luck!
Jeff said:
After my AVM surgery at the NIH/NINDS in 2002 the surgeon Dr. John Heiss told me
that he removed the AVM. 3 months after a RIGHT TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY
the seizures started again. I went Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, MD.
The doctor at Hopkins told me after reviewing all the MRI’s, Scans,
X-rays, hand written records from the NIH/NINDS that the AVM was
not removed as DR. JOHN HEISS told me. It’s in my RIGHT FRONTAL
LOBE.
So this is proof about “I am unable to judge whether or not I have poor judgement.”
My poor judgement was to trust Dr. William Theodore
and Dr. John Heiss at the NIH / NINDS.