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Dehydration and seizures ?

Tue, 10/03/2006 - 10:26
has anyone ever been dehydrated and had seizures and does being dehydrated make your seizures worse? jenn

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Re: Dehydration and seizures ?

Submitted by scorpio on Sat, 2011-04-30 - 12:02

Karyn.

 Very pleased to hear that your epi has improved.  'Dehydration' probably affects the seizure sensitivity of more people than one realises.  As to reducing the doseage of the Lamictal, why not see how things are in a months or so's time?  If you are still in 'new, improved' condition you might consider reducing the drug a bit, by 100mg/d say.  I reduced my Lamictal doseage from 400mg to 200mg/d some time ago but I did so mainly because, at the time, I was eliminatiing the Phenytoin (aka Dilantin, on your side of the Pond) I was taking alongside it (due to its effect on your metabolism, one needs a higher dose of most other drugs taken with Phenytoin, other things being equal). 

Like you I was found a Lamictal doseage of 400mg/d rather dizzy-making sometimes.  As to cognitive function, the Lamictal has rather shredded my memory, 'names' especially.  Still, I am now driving a car and leading as normal a life as one might expect.

Let us know how matters progress.

Chris 

 

Karyn.

 Very pleased to hear that your epi has improved.  'Dehydration' probably affects the seizure sensitivity of more people than one realises.  As to reducing the doseage of the Lamictal, why not see how things are in a months or so's time?  If you are still in 'new, improved' condition you might consider reducing the drug a bit, by 100mg/d say.  I reduced my Lamictal doseage from 400mg to 200mg/d some time ago but I did so mainly because, at the time, I was eliminatiing the Phenytoin (aka Dilantin, on your side of the Pond) I was taking alongside it (due to its effect on your metabolism, one needs a higher dose of most other drugs taken with Phenytoin, other things being equal). 

Like you I was found a Lamictal doseage of 400mg/d rather dizzy-making sometimes.  As to cognitive function, the Lamictal has rather shredded my memory, 'names' especially.  Still, I am now driving a car and leading as normal a life as one might expect.

Let us know how matters progress.

Chris 

 

Re: Dehydration and seizures ?

Submitted by TSC Parent on Tue, 2011-07-26 - 13:36

Karyn... and all! This is so amazing to read these posts. I have been self studying antioxidants and hydration for a little over 2 years now. A friend had been badgering us for like 3 months to have our then 7 year old daughter drink Kangen Water, it is alkaline, antioxidant water that also hydrates better due to being molecularly reduced in size by the ionization process.

She has TSC and was a living zombie due to all the meds she was on and still having about 40 or so tonic clonic SZ's a month. She had no quality of life in our view. Within a week of starting this hydration process she began to speak more clearly, became more energetic and after 2 months seizures had dropped by over 50%. She was also becoming toxically over medicated and under Dr. guidance we were able to cut back on her meds with no increase in seizures. This brought about even further benefits to her speaking, cognitive and overall life! Her vomiting and constipation stopped too. Constipation regardless of the cause is most often related to dehydration I now realize. We knew back then when she was complaining of "stomach aches" she always seemed to seize more but never put the 2 together.

Chris posted a reply about his liver not processing his meds properly due to possibly being dehydrated. I could not agree more with that and feel that is why after becoming properly hydrated our duaghters seizures dropped and the amount of meds she was on was "suddenly" way too much. Water plays a huge role in all organ function, asimulation of all hormones, enzymes etc and is responsible for flushing the acidic toxic waste created by natural cellular metabolism out of our cells as well as its function in mitochondria, the blood and nerves.  These posts help confirm my thoughts on this and tells me SO many people don't understand dehydration which begins to hurt everyone some way or another long before you recognize your thirst or "UCD" level, (Unintentional Chronic Dehydration). I hope everyone reading this will read up and research the important role of Water in Brain Function.

I have posted some info and more thoughts on hydration, oxidative stress and Mitochondrial dysfunction under the discussions tab at my facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Kangen-Water-Orange-County/109229055797217?sk=app_2373072738 

With Epi . com being what many consider one of the best Epi sites I can't believe there is not a section specially devoted to hydration for all the reasons we all have mentioned in this string. So far this is the first time Gianna has had only 5 T/C's  and only 5 last month too, summer or not! Maybe we can all send them a link to our our own posts and hopefully they will recognize the significance of all the amazing success stories about reducing seizures and have a real section commited to it for all to see and read, after all next to breathing nothing is more important than proper hydration. Pat D.

Karyn... and all! This is so amazing to read these posts. I have been self studying antioxidants and hydration for a little over 2 years now. A friend had been badgering us for like 3 months to have our then 7 year old daughter drink Kangen Water, it is alkaline, antioxidant water that also hydrates better due to being molecularly reduced in size by the ionization process.

She has TSC and was a living zombie due to all the meds she was on and still having about 40 or so tonic clonic SZ's a month. She had no quality of life in our view. Within a week of starting this hydration process she began to speak more clearly, became more energetic and after 2 months seizures had dropped by over 50%. She was also becoming toxically over medicated and under Dr. guidance we were able to cut back on her meds with no increase in seizures. This brought about even further benefits to her speaking, cognitive and overall life! Her vomiting and constipation stopped too. Constipation regardless of the cause is most often related to dehydration I now realize. We knew back then when she was complaining of "stomach aches" she always seemed to seize more but never put the 2 together.

Chris posted a reply about his liver not processing his meds properly due to possibly being dehydrated. I could not agree more with that and feel that is why after becoming properly hydrated our duaghters seizures dropped and the amount of meds she was on was "suddenly" way too much. Water plays a huge role in all organ function, asimulation of all hormones, enzymes etc and is responsible for flushing the acidic toxic waste created by natural cellular metabolism out of our cells as well as its function in mitochondria, the blood and nerves.  These posts help confirm my thoughts on this and tells me SO many people don't understand dehydration which begins to hurt everyone some way or another long before you recognize your thirst or "UCD" level, (Unintentional Chronic Dehydration). I hope everyone reading this will read up and research the important role of Water in Brain Function.

I have posted some info and more thoughts on hydration, oxidative stress and Mitochondrial dysfunction under the discussions tab at my facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Kangen-Water-Orange-County/109229055797217?sk=app_2373072738 

With Epi . com being what many consider one of the best Epi sites I can't believe there is not a section specially devoted to hydration for all the reasons we all have mentioned in this string. So far this is the first time Gianna has had only 5 T/C's  and only 5 last month too, summer or not! Maybe we can all send them a link to our our own posts and hopefully they will recognize the significance of all the amazing success stories about reducing seizures and have a real section commited to it for all to see and read, after all next to breathing nothing is more important than proper hydration. Pat D.

Re: Dehydration and seizures ?

Submitted by George R on Tue, 2006-10-03 - 13:38
George - NYC -- I'm Thirsty! You know, Shygirl, I have heard many times that letting ourselves get too dry does bring on seizures, and just plain bad health. The textbook recommendation (for anybody, not just we E people) is 8 glasses of water per day. And I'm sure I don't take down even half of that amount! I guess it comes from my childhood, when things like milk and juice took the place of water. But now it's rare that I finish even one glass at a time. Maybe consuming more water would help those half-dozen pills I take each day make it through my body better. You've inspired me to try. Thanks!

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