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I have hung on to this BBC story, which was done in 1999 because I think this continues to happen to many people. The drugs affected me so badly, I decided to live with uncontrolled seizures rather than the mental and emotional impairment from drug side effects. This article points to the need to be vigilant in monitoring drugs and their side effects when we take them and to act at the first sign of a serious problem. Many problems docs were attributing to my strokes or to "mental illness" disappeared when I stopped using the AEDs.
Zoe
"Health: Epilepsy drugs trapped man in childhood
They had diagnosed 31-year-old Nick Pierce as epileptic when he was 14 months old.
He was put on a cocktail of drugs to control the condition and tests led to Mr Pierce being classed as mentally disabled.
However, it seems he had merely suffered an extreme reaction to the drugs and since doctors ended the prescription has been learning quickly. "
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Full Story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/435541.stm
Zoe
"Health: Epilepsy drugs trapped man in childhood
They had diagnosed 31-year-old Nick Pierce as epileptic when he was 14 months old.
He was put on a cocktail of drugs to control the condition and tests led to Mr Pierce being classed as mentally disabled.
However, it seems he had merely suffered an extreme reaction to the drugs and since doctors ended the prescription has been learning quickly. "
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Full Story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/435541.stm