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Epilepsy and marijuana

Sat, 02/05/2005 - 12:32
Hi all, I was wondering whether or not the effects of pot on the brain can intefere with the effects of the epilepsy medicine Tegretol 400mg per day. I know grapefruit and alcohol have adverse effects on the drug's treatments and can lead to uncontrollabe seizure possibilities in some cases. However, in the case of weed I do not not if it does have any interference or not. So if anyone could help me here I would appreciate it. Thanks.Chris

Comments

Re: my life with weed and epilepsy

Submitted by organix on Wed, 2008-04-09 - 02:13

If only the doctors had 80% of their stock in Medical Cannabis rather than Dilantin..

Dilantin did not work 100% of the time to control my Absence seizures. Cannabis Does! Without the use of Pharmaceutical BS!!

Some people think of Cannabis as a harmfull drug and dare to criticize it, being very ignorant. Not knowing anything about this plants potential. Judging a plant that has been around since the beginning of time..

You can make all the ASSumptions you want about cannabis.. Learn the Facts!

Vaporize it!

 

I have not had a seizure in over 3 years, not even that aura feeling.

 

If you are sick of taking pills with more adverse effects than good. Try something thats been proven before profits and pills.

If only the doctors had 80% of their stock in Medical Cannabis rather than Dilantin..

Dilantin did not work 100% of the time to control my Absence seizures. Cannabis Does! Without the use of Pharmaceutical BS!!

Some people think of Cannabis as a harmfull drug and dare to criticize it, being very ignorant. Not knowing anything about this plants potential. Judging a plant that has been around since the beginning of time..

You can make all the ASSumptions you want about cannabis.. Learn the Facts!

Vaporize it!

 

I have not had a seizure in over 3 years, not even that aura feeling.

 

If you are sick of taking pills with more adverse effects than good. Try something thats been proven before profits and pills.

Re: my life with weed and epilepsy

Submitted by alexmccarthy on Sat, 2008-08-30 - 03:23
i'll be honest, compared with most of you my epilepsy is relatively mild. it is juvenile myoclonic and ive only had three seizures, usually about six months apart due to lack of sleep and alcohol abuse (my two biggest triggers). my lamictal (250 mg a day) mostly keeps it in check, but i have recently been experimenting with marijuana. not so much for medical purposes but for recreation. and to be honest, a lot of the time it gives me a sort of paranoia that im going to have a seizure due to a sort of shaky feeling i get whenever i move (im sure this is normal, but a shaky or vibrating feelings is also a pretrigger warning for my seizures). consequently, smoking can cause me to worry constantly that i am going to have a seizure, and i was wondering if this can be the case for any sort of epilepsy and if anyone knows anything about it. thank you, alex

Re: my life with weed and epilepsy

Submitted by ac123 on Mon, 2009-03-30 - 01:27
hey, i have juvenile myoclonic epilepsy too and i was disgnosed over a year ago after having my first grand mal seizure.. beofre that i would have many little seizures that would go unoticed frequently but i have not had a seizure since then. i am on lamotrigine and i have been contimplating the use of marijuana. i have never smoked before and i was thinking of trying but i am nervous that it will interfere with my meds and will result in a seizure. i was wondering if you had any suggestions or comments because everyone else seems to have a much more extremely kind of epilepsy

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