Beer helps my seizures! WTF?

[SniffleCat]

I have nocturnal partial motor seizures pretty much every night. I have found time and time again that if I have a beer before bed, I do not have a seizure or have far less. I don't understand this and it is definitely not in my head or a placebo effect. I will get a six pack of beer (real beer, not like bud or something) and have one every night and a few days later I think, wow my seizures have been so much better the past few nights and then I remember the beer. I run out of beer and they go back to normal. Does anyone else experience this?? Its so weird.

 

[Frink]

I was reading about alcohol working in the GABA receptors in the brain, so it could be that 1 beer is like taking a small benzo helping to calm the brain.

 

[seagull]

Well that's not fair if I have beer or my case larger not very often as can give me pounding headache come morning

 

[Nakamova]

Some people have used hops as a mild treatment for anxiety, restlessness, and insomnia, so that could be what's working for you. If it's the hops, then non-alcoholic beer should have the same beneficial effect without any of the alcohol-related side effects.

And if you're drinking Guinness, maybe it's the all those B vitamins (good for the brain) that are helping.

 

[seagull]

I would rather drink a Bud or fosters than non alcoholic beer Guiness can you get that in US vile taste unless drinking it in Dublin it do tend taste better.
Maybe it relax time when beer comes out well if working out ok I go for it you lucky for me it lottery if I going be ill or not drink before bed now you just put me in mood for a snowball