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For those who have developed seizures more recently, have you noticed that you are more susceptible to illness, or when you do become ill it seems to hit you harder and more severely than than before? I fall into the latter group: while I don't seem to get sick more often, a cold is never just a simple cold anymore and it always goes into my chest and becomes a drawn out affair.
Just wondering if the medications we take could cause this, or is it because our bodies are already constantly fighting something (ie. suppressing abnormal electrical activity), or . . . ?
 
I think it's the meds causing mal-absoption of nutrients. I had that problem until I started eating paleo. I haven't had so much as a sniffle in 6 years.
It's like because of the meds you have to become a super off the charts health freak just to stay even.
 
I very rarely get sick. My MRI last summer showed sinus disease so I blow my nose a lot but that's about it.
 
Same here. I rarely get sick (which is a good thing since the medication seems to make my RBC and WBC counts low). I think Lamictal has been associated with increased nasal and sinus congestion, though I haven't had a problem with it.
 
Personally i think the viruses are getting stronger. I don't normally get sick, but that may be to all the antibiotics they give to animals we eat. So the viruses have to be stronger to bypass all that.


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In January I had something like the flu, we didn't go to get checked, but it took a good 3 weeks to get rid of it. I was making poor food choices.
Little man graciously gave me the flu again (how nice of him to share ) but this time around it was gone in about 5 days. Now this time i am on keto, i think that makes a difference. OR it could have been a different strand idk. I do know that all 3 of them had a terrible time getting rid of the cough and it settled down in their chest and mine did not. Hard to say :)
 
I almost very rarely get sick but it seems if I do it's something serious. A few years ago I ended up in the hospital for a few days with some sort of inner ear infection. I don't think I've ever had the flu or cold since I've had epilepsy.

I do have a VERY runny nose. My husband complains about how much Kleenex we go through. I did read that one epilepsy med does cause a runny nose. It very well could have been Lamictal as Nakamova said. I started taking allergy med recently and it has helped some.
 
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