Hey guys,
I understand pretty much all of the people on here don't have very much medical experience, and can not give much credible medical advice other than personal experience, and/or anecdote. That being said... About a year ago I was experiencing some full bodied seizures. For a few years, 2 or 3 times a year, I would experience full-bodied convulsions. These weren't just some ticks, I would fall to the ground, and seizure on the floor, with no control of my body. I was however slightly conscious, enough to know what was happening, but not enough to control my body, kind of like sleep paralysis.
After being scared enough, I went to a neurologist. With no history of any seizures throughout my family, and with the top notch insurance I had, at the time, they gave me the whole nine yards. First a standard eeg, which showed nothing. Next a cat scan, once again, nothing out of the ordinary. The they gave me an mri, same results. Finally they hooked me up to 72 hour eeg machine I had to carry around with me for the next 3 days, and still nothing. After this year or so of testing, my seizures kind of just stopped, and we just gave up.
To this day, however, I still wonder why that happened. The doctors wrote it off as me abusing alcohol, but from my knowledge, you get seizures from withdawijg from alcohol, however a lot of the times I was having a seizure, I had been drinking, so I couldn't have been withdrawing.
I hVent had a seizure in couple years now, but it still worries me why it happened in the first place, and whether or not I'll have a problem with it in the future. The reason I decided to write this thread, is because i read that studied have shown stimulants, Nd psychedelics can raise the seizure thresholds for epileptic patients. Does abusing recreational drugs just give people epilepsy seizures, or can the stimulus of partying hard give a healthy person a seizure too?
Sorry for the long post, please share your thoughts, if you read thru the end, and thank you
I understand pretty much all of the people on here don't have very much medical experience, and can not give much credible medical advice other than personal experience, and/or anecdote. That being said... About a year ago I was experiencing some full bodied seizures. For a few years, 2 or 3 times a year, I would experience full-bodied convulsions. These weren't just some ticks, I would fall to the ground, and seizure on the floor, with no control of my body. I was however slightly conscious, enough to know what was happening, but not enough to control my body, kind of like sleep paralysis.
After being scared enough, I went to a neurologist. With no history of any seizures throughout my family, and with the top notch insurance I had, at the time, they gave me the whole nine yards. First a standard eeg, which showed nothing. Next a cat scan, once again, nothing out of the ordinary. The they gave me an mri, same results. Finally they hooked me up to 72 hour eeg machine I had to carry around with me for the next 3 days, and still nothing. After this year or so of testing, my seizures kind of just stopped, and we just gave up.
To this day, however, I still wonder why that happened. The doctors wrote it off as me abusing alcohol, but from my knowledge, you get seizures from withdawijg from alcohol, however a lot of the times I was having a seizure, I had been drinking, so I couldn't have been withdrawing.
I hVent had a seizure in couple years now, but it still worries me why it happened in the first place, and whether or not I'll have a problem with it in the future. The reason I decided to write this thread, is because i read that studied have shown stimulants, Nd psychedelics can raise the seizure thresholds for epileptic patients. Does abusing recreational drugs just give people epilepsy seizures, or can the stimulus of partying hard give a healthy person a seizure too?
Sorry for the long post, please share your thoughts, if you read thru the end, and thank you
