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Food-Triggered Siezures
Sun, 05/18/2008 - 14:10Comments
Re: Food-Triggered Siezures
Submitted by jderry on Tue, 2009-10-20 - 08:44
Caffine,pork,cut back on dairy,cheinise cooking,drinking,not enough fiber in diet,
Caffine,pork,cut back on dairy,cheinise cooking,drinking,not enough fiber in diet,
Re: Food-Triggered Siezures
Submitted by psgutters on Sat, 2009-12-19 - 02:41
Well, I had 2 different things trigger my auras. Without meds, they would've gone to full blown seizures. As I would start to eat, it would trigger an aura. It didn't matter what the food was. And certain colors, usually an off-orange color would trigger them. I had a temporal lobectomy last year. And they also removed half of my hippocampus. But during the intracranial monitoring, when off my meds, I could start to eat or just even THINK of the color and it would trigger a grand mal. Eating didn't cause them every time, but the color did. I figured out the color in a restaurant. It was a mexican place that had the walls painted an orange-ish, pink-ish color. When the neurologist couldn't get any seizures out of me for the monitoring, I started to joke about how they could take me to dinner with all the monitoring equipment to this place. He had me describe the color. Within 5 minutes, I had a grand mal. 4 more seizures were triggered as I started to eat.
Hope this helps.
Well, I had 2 different things trigger my auras. Without meds, they would've gone to full blown seizures. As I would start to eat, it would trigger an aura. It didn't matter what the food was. And certain colors, usually an off-orange color would trigger them. I had a temporal lobectomy last year. And they also removed half of my hippocampus. But during the intracranial monitoring, when off my meds, I could start to eat or just even THINK of the color and it would trigger a grand mal. Eating didn't cause them every time, but the color did. I figured out the color in a restaurant. It was a mexican place that had the walls painted an orange-ish, pink-ish color. When the neurologist couldn't get any seizures out of me for the monitoring, I started to joke about how they could take me to dinner with all the monitoring equipment to this place. He had me describe the color. Within 5 minutes, I had a grand mal. 4 more seizures were triggered as I started to eat.
Hope this helps.
Re: Food-Triggered Siezures
Submitted by Addibaby on Sun, 2010-08-01 - 21:23
Thank you so much for your reply!!! Our son, Addison, was recently diagnosed with epilepsy. His results to the test the doctors have ran are not adding up! We go this month to the doctor to see about a special diet. But, I have never heard of these other test. I will definitely check them out.