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Coffee stopped my Epilepsy Seizures
Mon, 03/11/2013 - 14:53Comments
Re: Coffee stopped my Epilepsy Seizures
Submitted by joel2 on Tue, 2013-08-06 - 00:48
Actually my very first medication fighting epilepsy had caffeine in it made in France "doral" I believe , I had extremely low dose , when I came to the state my MD said you have such small dose you might as well use nothing and I stopped , some $3000 dollars later ambulance and ER he put me back on it ....I drank very little alcohol; now none , at the time I was drinking 32 cups of coffee a day plus countless espresso , kept me going for these 16 hours shift and 3 months without days off , beautiful life of the restaurant industry. When my new neurologist find out about coffee he asked me to cut down I told him I will stop tomorrow and I did overnight no effect , he could not believe I did not have any problems , I did not , no weigh gain , nothing .
What was causing the seizure was a tumor and 27 later it decided to grow .....
Actually my very first medication fighting epilepsy had caffeine in it made in France "doral" I believe , I had extremely low dose , when I came to the state my MD said you have such small dose you might as well use nothing and I stopped , some $3000 dollars later ambulance and ER he put me back on it ....I drank very little alcohol; now none , at the time I was drinking 32 cups of coffee a day plus countless espresso , kept me going for these 16 hours shift and 3 months without days off , beautiful life of the restaurant industry. When my new neurologist find out about coffee he asked me to cut down I told him I will stop tomorrow and I did overnight no effect , he could not believe I did not have any problems , I did not , no weigh gain , nothing .
What was causing the seizure was a tumor and 27 later it decided to grow .....
Re: Coffee stopped my Epilepsy Seizures
Submitted by Masterjen on Tue, 2013-03-19 - 12:30
I find caffeine (tea) is a trigger for seizures, esp. if I've experienced other triggers like mental or physical stress (and that is when I'm more likely to want tea lol. I used to just blame it on the stress factor so finally I started drinking tea a little more regularly to figure this out. Definitely it is a trigger. No more caffeinated tea for me!!