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Lately I have been experimenting with reducing my dosage of dilantin and substituting with increased magnesium. I started doing this after noticing a dramatic decrease in seizures one day when I took magnesium. It's too early to say yet, but I do notice my brain feels more comfortable despite decrease of dilantin. My ultimate goal next week is to substitute 3 dilantins a day with 3 500 mg mags a day.
I've been hearing a lot about success of this treatment and it used to be the PRIMARY TREATMENT in the nineteenth century for persons with epilepsy, usually using Epsom Salts.
I am speculating that perhaps my own condition is a result of magnesium depletion due to some inherited inability to maintain proper amounts in bloodstream. I do know that taking dilantin tegretol valproic acid etc do NOTHING to reduce my own seizures; they come and go at about same rate.
I'd like to attach this article: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FDN/is_1_12/ai_n19170695/pg_8
The thing I found particularly interesting:
"Severe magnesium depletion can cause seizures (74,75) or increase susceptibility to seizure-inducing stimuli. (76) Intravenously infused magnesium exerted an anticonvulsant effect against experimentally-induced epileptic foci in cats and dogs. (77) In humans, parenterally administered magnesium is an effective treatment for the seizures of neonatal tetany (78) and eclampsia and possibly for those associated with ethanol withdrawal and acute intermittent porphyria. (79)
Magnesium concentrations in serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) were significantly lower in 40 patients with grand mal epilepsy than in controls. (80,81) Serum and CSF magnesium levels fell with increasing duration and frequency of seizures. Oral administration of magnesium has been associated in some cases with an improvement in EEG findings and a reduction in seizure frequency. (82)"
I would be interested to know if others have had similar improvements with use of magnesium. I also understand B6, zinc, salt, and Vit E are important.
I've been hearing a lot about success of this treatment and it used to be the PRIMARY TREATMENT in the nineteenth century for persons with epilepsy, usually using Epsom Salts.
I am speculating that perhaps my own condition is a result of magnesium depletion due to some inherited inability to maintain proper amounts in bloodstream. I do know that taking dilantin tegretol valproic acid etc do NOTHING to reduce my own seizures; they come and go at about same rate.
I'd like to attach this article: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FDN/is_1_12/ai_n19170695/pg_8
The thing I found particularly interesting:
"Severe magnesium depletion can cause seizures (74,75) or increase susceptibility to seizure-inducing stimuli. (76) Intravenously infused magnesium exerted an anticonvulsant effect against experimentally-induced epileptic foci in cats and dogs. (77) In humans, parenterally administered magnesium is an effective treatment for the seizures of neonatal tetany (78) and eclampsia and possibly for those associated with ethanol withdrawal and acute intermittent porphyria. (79)
Magnesium concentrations in serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) were significantly lower in 40 patients with grand mal epilepsy than in controls. (80,81) Serum and CSF magnesium levels fell with increasing duration and frequency of seizures. Oral administration of magnesium has been associated in some cases with an improvement in EEG findings and a reduction in seizure frequency. (82)"
I would be interested to know if others have had similar improvements with use of magnesium. I also understand B6, zinc, salt, and Vit E are important.