Whilst nexxo has covered it all excellently, I have one working example. A friend of mine who was diagnosed with a brain tumour (and as such had fits) was told he could not drive until he had not had a fit for a year from the date of the operation to remove it.
wow, so kna, your friend had a tumour and was having fits, did he have to have operations for the tumour? and he still had to wait 1 year withouth fits to drive again?
Yes, I would assume so. The tumour can cause fits, but the scar tissue resulting from surgical removal of the tumour can also cause fits. There is also the process of "kindling": when neurons are repeatedly subjected to epileptic activity, they can themselves become epileptic. So generally after brain surgery or traumatic brain injury people may be put on anti-epileptics as a preventative measure, and if no fits occur the dose is gradually reduced and withdrawn over the period of a year.
