grapefruit

Hi, I'm a 39 year old male and over the last 12 months I have started having seizures, to date I have had 5, 3 asleep & 2 awake; My first ever seizure was Dec 2014. I woke up at 06 am, got out of bed, checked the weather out the window & decided it was ridiculously too early to get up from a...

Does anyone know the actual chemical in Grapefruit that keeps AED's (or at least Tegretol) from working? If I remember this right grapefruit speeds up the metabolism of the Tegretol so you end up having less of the medication in your system than you think you do. I can't remember if Grapefruit...

Just for reference, I had a major set of seizures one day after eating an entire ruby red grapfruit. I've been convinced my seizures are triggered by my hormones for a long time. My grandmother (paternal) died of breast cancer. My mother was the one with Epilepsy.