can MILK trigger it !!

[jayde-101]

onder:

ive been thinking today ... about my seizures and how they are getting increasingly worse ... and ive thought the only thing ive increased is my milk intake

i have been drinking lots and lots of milk/milkshakes and i mean loads around 2 liters a day or maybe more

just wondering ??

onder:

 

[Silat]

Directly, no, but in an indirect way it could be influencing them.

Unless you're lactose intolerant, it shouldn't bother you directly.

However a lot of milk is taken from cattle that have been treated with hormones, so they can produce milk constantly for most if not all of the year. These hormones are released by the cows body into the milk, which would ordinarily be used by the baby cow to help it grow, however in humans it's not the same result. Often, these hormones will affect the levels of estrogen in the body, much more dramatically in women, of course, because those are the female reproductive hormones.

Natural estrogens are up to 100,000 times more potent than their environmental counterparts, such as the estrogen-like compounds in pesticides.

"Among the routes of human exposure to estrogens, we are mostly concerned about cow's milk, which contains considerable amounts of female sex hormones," Ganmaa told her audience. Dairy, she added, accounts for 60 percent to 80 percent of estrogens consumed.

Part of the problem seems to be milk from modern dairy farms, where cows are milked about 300 days a year. For much of that time, the cows are pregnant. The later in pregnancy a cow is, the more hormones appear in her milk.

Milk from a cow in the late stage of pregnancy contains up to 33 times as much of a signature estrogen compound (estrone sulfate) than milk from a non-pregnant cow.

In a study of modern milk in Japan, Ganmaa found that it contained 10 times more progesterone, another hormone, than raw milk from Mongolia.

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/12.07/11-dairy.html

Since your seizures tend to cluster around the time around your cycle, it's something to consider.

 

[Nakamova]

Maybe the extra calcium is messing with you? Too much calcium can cause things like constipation, dry mouth, a continuing headache, increased thirst, irritability, loss of appetite, depression, a metallic taste in the mouth, and fatigue. And too much calcium can also effect the brain and cause seizures, though most people aren't at risk.

Best way to see if it's a factor is to cut down on the milk intake and see what happens...

 

[jayde-101]

thanks nathaniel and nak ! ...

im not sure cutting downs gonna be that easy :/ ...

milk ... at the time of drinking seems to make me feel really happy .. i usually drink it when i feel down or when im bored ect ... i even drink it when i eat lunch and supper :/
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ill start trying to cut it down and see .... ive not had any of them side effects you mentioned nak apart from the fatigue :s

im sure ill see i just thought it was a possiblitiy