this is what i found out on one forum and is 90% my story
Seizures and medical marijuana
my fiance has had seizures on and off for about 6-7 years now, beginning when she was 16. They began immediately when she began puberty and was diagnosed with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. The first medicine that she was prescribed was depacote, one of the more common anti epilepsy drugs. Because the medication was not controlling tremors even though it was controlling seizures, the doctor boosted the dose up multiple times until it reached a toxic level and she had to be taken off of it. The next medication that was tried was lamictal, with devastating results, she became extremely angry and manic and began throwing things at one point, because she was psychotic and she had to drop out of school. she also had so many different side effects from the lamictal that she
After lamictal, she was put on kepra, which was working at first, but then she had an unexplained seizure and was put on an overdose of it. The doctor that she had at this point was extremely irresponsible and fiquired rather than changing medications the doctor uped her dose to a near toxic level again. She then became suicidal, homocidal, manic, depressed and had insomnia. her best friend then took her to a doctor and the doctor whom was biased would not believe that she had epilepsy and her medication was making her act like this and they claimed that she was just a college student who had overdosed on drugs which was b.s. After lamictal, she switched to kepra which was yet another medication that her irresponsible neurologist raised to a near toxic level to the point where she was taking 12 pills a day just for seizures, so they changed her meds to tegratol which just caused more seizures.
After having 7 unexplained seizures in one day, she was switched to Topamax after being put in the hospital. Topamax made her completely out of it. She could not think or remember anything even her own name. She was extremely vulnerable and couldn't understand anything and was confused to the point of dysfunction for months. She had to drop out of shcool as she couldn't do anything school related. Even after normalcy started to come back, she could barely read or remember information, had trouble speaking and putting words together, which continued for the whole time she was on topamax. Topamax not only caused extreme stupidity, but also stomach problems, hearing/speech problems, headaches, diarrhea, sickness,depression, fatigue and insomnia so she had to offset these syptoms by taking more and more pharmaceuticals like anti-depressents and sleep medication. Finaly after a year or two of taking topamax and being in a permanent haze she decided to switch medicines because the side effects of topamax were unbearable.
she is now on zonagram, which has a few subtle side effects but nothing when compared to topamax. Although she had no seizures on topamax, it was too hard to functon in life on it. Well the point of this is that there has been one miracle medication that has worked for her everytime she feels seizure brain activity and keeps her mood calm enough to not have seizures, and that medication is marijuana. For her epilepsy marijuana has been a godsend. Ever since she started smoking it regularly she has not had a seizure and it has kept her seizures at bay when she misses doses of her regular medications. suprisingly it is much much much more easy for her to lead a functional life while high on marijuana, than the extreme intoxication that topamax, lamictal, etc. brings.
I have read that marijuana prevented seizure activity but never believed it before. but now i am convinced. When she was having seizures she was not using marijuana, and then her doctor suggested it because it is a known alternative to people whom normal epilepsy meds don't work for, and once she found high grade marijuana, her seizure syptoms anf seizures dissapeared almost immediatedly even though she was on the same prescriptions. And when she stopped marijuana, the symptoms that precede seizures began to return. so to anybody out their that doubtd the healing power of cannabis, you are living in a closed minded world of pharmaceutical industry prpaganda. Even though medical marijuana id not legal for seizures it should be it has saved people from seizures.
By seizur... at Sat, 12/31/2005 - 10:11am
and loopy, by the way
30% of schizophrenic are in mental hospital because they are on higher level on evolution scale then most of the people living on this planet so they cannot understand these people and the easiest way is too put them away in some institution and put them on medications so they cannot function
i asked doctor and he said only alcohol not to drink
thx 4 welcoming
P.S. marijuana aggressive... i c u don't now nothing about marijuana so i advise u 2 inform about it before telling that he became schizophrenic and extremely paranoid and aggressive because of it
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