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Smoking marijuana and drinking
Thu, 02/07/2008 - 01:51Topic: Living With Epilepsy - Youth
I was just reading on this website all of the forums about drinking and smoking cigarettes and how bad they are for you. It didnt say anything about weed and I smoke weed maybe once a week or once every two weeks and is it bad for having seizures? Also if you drink maybe two beers to three beers once a weekend is that bad?
Comments
Re: Smoking marijuana and drinking
Submitted by Lin22 on Sun, 2012-03-04 - 01:50
I also use weed cuz it helps my seizures and i dont beleive it will harm you...in a lot of ways it helps me. Having a seizure is worse damage to your brain then a little weed.
I have been smoking marijuana
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2014-11-07 - 17:02
I have been smoking marijuana my whole life and I've had weird "flashes"(now known as epilepsy) since I was a child. I would have a "flash"as I called it, no more than twice a year. I finally had one bad enough to where I was taken by ambulance and then put on meds. I was put on 1000 mg of generic keppra. I'm not sure if it's the meds i was put on, but I've been on them for three years and since I started them I have seizures at least once a month. I've always smoked weed and didn't have seizures any more than usual. But then while on prescription meds that doctors don't even know how the fuck they supposedly help the condition, I have more than I've ever had.I'm not saying that weed is for everyone, but I know people who've tried it once with me and never touched it again because they got so paranoid. You would know RIGHT AWAY if weed is not for you. Alcohol on the other hand is fucking ridiculous. I can't believe that people have the nerves to act like weed is worse than alcohol.. if liquor stores are at every corner then why can't weed clinics be at every corner? If people can abuse alcohol then let people abuse marijuana if they want..(which is pretty damn hard to do) people don't kill people in car accidents due to weed. It's fucking ALCOHOL. . And believe me I LOVE BEER..AND LIQUOR AND WINE and pretty much anything that fucks me up. But over the years I am trying to forget about boozes. I'm doing better but I do think it triggers my epilepsy. Everyone is different..but alcohol isn't good for any medical condition..just remember that! ! ♡♡danny FUCK EPILEPSY
Re: Smoking marijuana and drinking
Submitted by tcameron on Tue, 2013-05-07 - 15:00
Thanks for the information. You gave me all the reason I need not to try this. Besides wasting your life away, I wouldn't be surprised if your waist became larger than healthy, since marijuana increases appetite.