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Food-Triggered Siezures

Sun, 05/18/2008 - 14:10

Topic: Living With Epilepsy - Adults

So I have never found a trigger my siezures beyond them occuring around my period...but I think I might be on to something. Maybe even something that might give me the origin to my seizures- since they haven't found anything on my CT scans or MRI. I went out for Thai food this week and last to a specific place. I had a small siezure right after eating both times. The first time I didn't think much of it since I was on my period, but it was my only one that week (odd, I didn't have more that cycle) but the second time I looked at my plate suspiciously. I had crab rangoon both times, but I had it once before at this place and didn't react so *scratch*... However, I recalled the number of times in the past four years that my seziues began at the dinner table. Some of my worst ones began at the dinner table. Could I have an allergy to something? Why would I not be reacting to it more often outside the time of my period? Some minor research does pull up that allergies are stronger during menstration. Could I be more predisposed to a reaction then when my seizure threshhold is lower as is? I'm going to have to keep track of what I eat now. Does anyone else have anything similar to this, or heard of it? Is it a possibility?

Comments

Re: (((Catamenial Epilepsy))) Food-Triggered Siezures

Submitted by TenAlive on Mon, 2009-10-05 - 10:47

I was recently daignosed. Just started having them in the past month and increasing in numbers. I recently switched my diet from white bread to wheat. I was in the hospital for a number of days and didnt have any. I have also had some a few hours after having caffeine. I think I will be staying away from both for now on.

Re: (((Catamenial Epilepsy))) Food-Triggered Siezures

Submitted by Autumns mom on Mon, 2009-10-05 - 16:45

AUTUMNS MOMMA CHERI

Thank you so much for this information. My daughter has intractable epilepsy, autism, etc etc. Anyways we have felt for a long time that the neurologist was missing something. My daughter is too sensitive to food. We have eliminated certain foods from her diet just because of the reaction she has. To think that certain foods cause seizures just made a light bulb go off. This is great information, and I plan on contacting her neurologist with this information.

Thank you

AUTUMNS MOMMA CHERI

Thank you

Re: (((Catamenial Epilepsy))) Food-Triggered Siezures

Submitted by teachergreen on Sat, 2009-10-17 - 13:12

teachergreen

Really? You believe your seizures were provoked by soda. (caffeine) ? How often did/do you have seizures? What do you drink in place of the soda? Water, juice, and milk get a little boring for me.

teachergreen

Really? You believe your seizures were provoked by soda. (caffeine) ? How often did/do you have seizures? What do you drink in place of the soda? Water, juice, and milk get a little boring for me.

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