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acid and seizures?

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has anyone done acid and had a seizure during the trip? my friend was at a festivial did a dose, and seized like an hour after and had to get rushed to the hopsital. jw if this could have been the dose. i know nerves get rerouted in the brain, could that have something to do with it?
 
It can trigger seizures in people predisposed to them, particularly if they are dehydrated or otherwise not in a good state to begin with, but it's very unusual.

Does your friend have a history of seizures? Had he been using other drugs at the time, or in the days leading up to it? Was the acid legit?
 
has anyone done acid and had a seizure during the trip? my friend was at a festivial did a dose, and seized like an hour after and had to get rushed to the hopsital. jw if this could have been the dose. i know nerves get rerouted in the brain, could that have something to do with it?
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It sounds to me like your friend was either predisposed to seizures or your "acid" contained something other than LSD. If possible, I would get the acid he took analyzed by a third party lab to see if it contained any other substances.
 
Lets not forget during high stress situations involving potentially low blood sugar and dehydration can cause you to have a seizure.

LSD in a proper set and setting would would minimal potential for seizing, unless there is an underlying health issues with seizures as a symptom. I however do not know enough in those areas to to get specific.
 
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many psychedelics can lower the seizure threshold, which usually isn't that big a deal unless you have a seizure disorder or the types of things mentioned above, such as dehydration, lack of nutrients, stress, etc.
 
Happened to me only when I combined it with nitrous one time, then the next time I tried the combination I went easy on it and a very similar thing threatened to happen. The funny thing is that the first next time it went okay was when I had MDMA in the combination. That straightened something out for me like overkill tension / maybe overkill brain activity. I find it a little hard to explain.

From what limited medical knowledge I have I think it was a tonic seizure.
 
Loss of conciousness can be mistaken for seizure activity, esp. when you're on drugs that increase the amount of electrical signalling going on.

I know that at the very least, to a layman, loss of conciousness due to a vasovagal attack was and can be misinterpreted as a "seizure". Happened to me and was not pleasant, the attending doctors didn't see the need for me to be rushed to the ER and set the people I was with straight.

I would imagine "white-out" loss-of-conciousness dosages of psychedelics could easily produce comatose or pseudoseizure states. The best thing to do in this case is keep the person from harming themselves or others (i.e. knocking things off shelves, falling) and remain calm. There's nothing worse than regaining conciousness to a flurry of people screaming about seizures and 911.
 
That post was probably not pointed at me, was it? Yeah, I've heard others mention seizures are being misdiagnosed a lot by laymen. The episode I was personally talking about had me go stiff as a board though, arch my back to a scary extent and making me worry about my health rather than my sense of ego. It felt like my head was short-circuiting and I had an olfactory hallucination of burning coles like the ones in a hookah (arab water pipe). My message sent me a very primal message of watching out because this was really dangerous, I don't think I have had that even on ego-death experiences.
A psychedelic effect that went along with it was kind of funny actually, it was getting a pop-up error message in my own visual screen with a cheesy windows sound and everything.
 
That post wasn't pointed at anyone. It's really hard to tell the difference between a bona-fide seizure and loss of conciousness, without having seen both at least once, that's all.

Seizures are undoubtedly a lot more unpleasant and have less forewarning than a vasovagal event.
 
Good to know, I wanted to share that anyway since I am open to alternative suggestions.

Might it be possible that LSD only potentially lowers the seizure threshold depending on special factors, so normally people might not get seizures from them more easily but under particular circumstances they can all the more? Like it catalyzes other factors that do lower the seizure threshold. Maybe it lowers the seizure threshold threshold.
Maybe I was being silly there in the end.
 
Yo bro, im a chemistry grad student and let me just say that acid is a drug that can cause so many side effects you cant even imagine. Every person can react differently. And yes, as said above people who have had them before will be much more likely to have them while acid. The drug pretty much wires all inpluses to the brain as one and thus you can see music and taste colors. Be careful from who you buy from, i like to make my own so its straight LSD-25. but lots of times it can be pretty decent, so trip well freinds
 
Actually I did chemistry as well but I that doesn't make me feel that qualified to 'lecture' (no offense meant) others about what LSD can and cannot do, as far as some of the lesser known sides are concerned. If you feel you are please offer a little more than a 'you can't imagine' and throw in a source while you are at it.
Sorry as I come off a little rough, I may understand what you are saying about the wiring the brain as one but while I think that may be true to a limited extent it would make you overload really fast if brain activity were truly homogenized. Anyhow some background info you might have would be welcome.
Seizures and epileptiform phenomena have to do with overload though so yes it does make sense, but I am missing some substantial data on this. Otherwise I don't feel like we are really getting anywhere new.

Also I highly doubt you make your own LSD and talk about it like you are somewhat new to it. If it is true, you are pretty silly to mention it here and I suggest you stop talking about it right now. At this point I call troll haoxx, the alternative would be self-incrimination which isn't pretty.
 
LSD like all other serotonergics will increase gain in recurrent circuits inside your noggin' via activation of 5HT2AR - therefore I have a hunch it lowers seizure threshold just by increasing the percieved intensity of any one stimulus. It most definitely doesn't homogenise the sensory inputs of your brain; that's physically impossible. It does however activate pathways that are almost never used (probably responsible for synesthia) and changes gene expression in mysterious ways.

I think massive sensory overload coupled with runaway amplification would be a good way to explain LSD-induced seizures. Imagine a carefully tuned amplifier and a microphone set to just below the feeback point, where noise in the system comes into play. Now set off a flashbang beside the microphone and I guarantee erratic things will happen to your equipment!

Unfortunately unless someone can get hooked to an EEG I suppose we'll never know if LSD-seizures actually similar to "classical" seizures induced by drugs (anti-GABA agents).

Me personally, If I were making LSD I would keep my mouth pretty tightly sealed. There's not too many chemists in the world that do it and don't get imprisoned.
 
I am also wondering about seizure possibility, but with DMT. Two nights ago i had my first experience with it at 25mg. Everything started breathing with my eyes open, but when i closed my eyes it felt like sensory overload was close. My CEV's where like static on a tv, and it would not let me relax my eyes. I had to fight to keep them closed.

I have never heard or read of this happening. My question is, could this be a sign that i cannot handle the experience? may have a seizure? Im probably overreacting.
My friend from college had a seizure on shrooms, but i was not present so I cannot say this with certainty.
 
acid most definitely can cause seizures, i tested these tabs my girlfriend bought w ehrlich reagents and they tested positive for lsd, when she took only one tab about 3 hours into the trip she couldn't speak right and when she tried to say words it wld come out as noises that didnt make sense. soon after her eyes rolled back into her head and she began foaming at the mouth and having a full on seizure but the weirdest part about it is that she was laughing and screaming while having the seizure and after it was over she was smiling into no where as the paramedics put her in the ambulance. its now a day after she called me from the hospital and she is still speech impaired but can somewhat make out words but the doctors say its because shes still pretty heavily sedated. im going to see her in an hour hopefully sometime soon she will be back to normal but im very lucky that she's alive, definitely never fucking around with acid ever again.
 
the acid was also from the vendor abLoneLSD on the darknet market so idk if he laced it w something else but ive never had anything like this happen w all the acid me and my girlfriend have done in the past. stay away from this vendor at all costs tripping is not worth losing your life for.
 
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