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Mild epileptic activity, eg brainxaps

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Years ago it was a mystery what caused ssri withdrawal induced brainzaps, i remember noticing them when i was using GBL, untill after some severe autoimmume or whatever weird reaction to the stim i was taking, with me offcourse keeping on taking more of that stim, i induced some severe shit, every stim tablet made me fall on the ground in chestpain, caused all sort of severe symptions, often managed to save my bloodvessels with viagra and shit but anyway i wont go into detail into how much of a "clever idiot" i was, completely stupid but allways made it out alive, also everytime i didnt know what to do i just overdosed on GBL and then woke up hours later.

End result of causing this damage for weeks caused me to get weird symptions of GBL, brainzaps, and starting to shout, walking around in circles, i was first unsure what it was, but later on i proposed it could be partional seizures, havent been able to take gbl since, well ive been trough getting 10 seizures a day and feeling horrific all day during my gbl addiction.

Short story short, years later when i added baclofen in higher doses to ritalin i started getting bad brainzaps, then blacked out and woke up in hospital where they asked me wheter i wanted a brainscan, i was then diagnosed with epilepsy, i didnt mention i took baclofen, so then i knew what brainzaps where actually about.

I also knew that benzos helped the brainzaps on baclofen, right now as part of my daily stack i take phenibut, i add it to my combo of clonazepam and whatever stim i can get, as i cant get dex prescribed in the UK due to horrible healthcare, and many rcs cause severe anxiety causing me to need to take higher doses of phenibut, this sometimes causes brainzaps or anoying forced movements in my legs or my feet wich is unpleasant, also id like to not that cannabinoids or opioids potentiate the seizurogenic activity of phenibut, DXM whcih i take for tolerance makes it worse too.

I dont want to take this into take less stuff dicussion because i do take alot of stuff, meds, sups, nootropics etc and experiment with stuff all the time, this is what i do and who i am, i want solutions for this seizure like activity, i dont like replys simular to where someone complains of benzo induced memory loss and gets as suggestion take less benzos.

My regime is responsible atm, i caused damage when i was 19, being a stupid risktaker and pushing everything to do limit, either way im sure this discussion would generate help for people with epilepsy with this issue which most neurologists claim have nothing to do with it, while ive read many anecdotes connecting them and every seizure i had started with brainzaps.

Benzos are helpfull, but sometimes dont cut it, depending on which stim or combo of stuff i take, phenytoin wasnt helpfull, i dont really remember what valproic acid did but i tougt it was helpfull.

I remember combined with stimulants, wich inhibits the brainzaps on their own for me, remember guys every anticonvulsant can be pro and visa versa minocycline allowed me take GBL again, a later pubmed search revealed this informationMinocycline as potent anticonvulsant in a patient with astrocytoma and drug resistant epilepsy

M. Nowakcorrespondenceemailemail, A. Strzelczyk, P.S. Reif, K. Schorlemmer, S. Bauer, B.A. Norwood, W.H. Oertel, F. Rosenow, H. Strik, H.M. Hamer
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.seizure.2011.12.009
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Minocycline, a tetracycline family antibiotic, is known to inhibit microglial activation and proinflammatory cytokine release in animal models. Experimental data show that these immune processes may play a role in epilepto- and ictogenesis. We present the case of a patient with marked reduction in seizure frequency during minocycline therapy with severe symptomatic epilepsy due to an astrocytoma.

Im sensitive to seizure activity induced by gbl, baclofen and phenibut, im not a complete expert on te glutamate system, baclofen depresses glutamate but its still associated with seizures while glutamate is basicly the keyplayer in seizures, could anyone clarify this for me?
 
The brain zaps that people get during some types of withdrawal aren't seizures. They are a type of paresthesia. Paresthesias can also occur during seizure aura, but that doesn't mean that all 'brain zaps' reflect seizure activity.

The brain zaps that occur during SSRI withdrawal are often co-incident with head movement. They don't show up as seizures on EEG recordings.
 
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