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Red Bull
Sat, 01/07/2006 - 21:45Comments
Re: Red Bull
Submitted by Juleee on Mon, 2009-05-11 - 11:56
Hi
My epilepsy is really well controlled and Red Bull causes me no problems whatsoever if I'm using it to give me a bit of extra energy. I do have problems though if I'm taking it to stay awake. I think that what really causes the problem is staying awake when I'm really tired but then once I've had the RB I can't sleep and when I finally do get to sleep I quite often have seizures in my sleep.
Ju
Hi
My epilepsy is really well controlled and Red Bull causes me no problems whatsoever if I'm using it to give me a bit of extra energy. I do have problems though if I'm taking it to stay awake. I think that what really causes the problem is staying awake when I'm really tired but then once I've had the RB I can't sleep and when I finally do get to sleep I quite often have seizures in my sleep.
Ju
Re: Red Bull
Submitted by sophia_hill on Mon, 2008-04-21 - 18:45
right, i'm lictrally addicted to the stuff, and i can go for periods of not drinking it and then drink like between 1 to 4 cans or more a night.... i can personally say.... from 3 to 4 seizures a day to over 60 seizures in one day after drinking 4 cans of red bull is not good... i nearly ended up comatized by the seizures because of the red bull.... i would drink it at night and stay up for 2 or 3 days at a time..... forget my med's and take them late and not eat aswell. and if i did sleep i would have seizures that i normally would not have, like clonic seizures and absence seizures and all the rest of it... i would have them plus all my usaul seizures; and they would be so volient aswell... i found some of them i would be in "full convulsion mode" and i would be awake with it... i would hear voices and that just before i had these violent episodes.... one night i had 24+ plus seziures with in the space of half an hour..... and then i thought "fuck this i'm too scared to go back to sleep i'll stay up and then go straight from bed to college!!" soo an hour later i tried to fall asleep again and then i had another 15+ in the space of 10 mins.... i didn't want to go to hospital because i knew i would never get out of the place... they like to send you home seizure free for 3/4 day before they will let you out...ITS A MEDICAL JAIL HOUSE HONESTLY!!! this was onkly a few weeks back.... i got a bollocking of everyone inculding the administrator for this site. and i didn't take a blind bit of notice..... soooo.... 3 days later and my seizures were gradually going down... i needed to have a can of red bull i was getting really anniod and pissed off that the shop was shut its was like at 11.00 at night .... so when mum was in bed at 1.00 am i walked a mile and half just for a can of red bull..... i ended up getting 5/6 cans of the stuff .... and yes again i was in hospital for the 15th time that month.... all the emergancy doctors and staff know me now.....and they ended up getting the medical chart and wack it round my head cos i'm a bit nieve about the whole epilespy thing and being such an idiot, i only got diagniosed two months ago.... and i'm still a bit in denial about it.... thinking i can get away with drinking alcohol and smoking a joint or two with my friends ... i know weed is ment to calm down seizures but in my case it doesn't.... i'm prone to partial status.... i which is not good at all.... but still me being me and a 17 year old teenager, its doesn't sink in as it should... yes i'm a student aswell and i work aswell ... long hours at college to try and make up for the time and weeks i have missed due to being ill and in hospital for weeks on end and its just too much... so what do i do?.... turn to the stuff that gave me and my writing hands wings!!!! and i thing i should go and chain my self to the class room table and then straight on to my bed so i can't go near the shops.... please some one put me under HOUSE ARREST! LOL so anyway i hope that gives you some answers to use query,. love soph xxx
The Princess yappy dog wants a hug!!! lov ya xxx
right, i'm lictrally addicted to the stuff, and i can go for periods of not drinking it and then drink like between 1 to 4 cans or more a night.... i can personally say.... from 3 to 4 seizures a day to over 60 seizures in one day after drinking 4 cans of red bull is not good... i nearly ended up comatized by the seizures because of the red bull.... i would drink it at night and stay up for 2 or 3 days at a time..... forget my med's and take them late and not eat aswell. and if i did sleep i would have seizures that i normally would not have, like clonic seizures and absence seizures and all the rest of it... i would have them plus all my usaul seizures; and they would be so volient aswell... i found some of them i would be in "full convulsion mode" and i would be awake with it... i would hear voices and that just before i had these violent episodes.... one night i had 24+ plus seziures with in the space of half an hour..... and then i thought "fuck this i'm too scared to go back to sleep i'll stay up and then go straight from bed to college!!" soo an hour later i tried to fall asleep again and then i had another 15+ in the space of 10 mins.... i didn't want to go to hospital because i knew i would never get out of the place... they like to send you home seizure free for 3/4 day before they will let you out...ITS A MEDICAL JAIL HOUSE HONESTLY!!! this was onkly a few weeks back.... i got a bollocking of everyone inculding the administrator for this site. and i didn't take a blind bit of notice..... soooo.... 3 days later and my seizures were gradually going down... i needed to have a can of red bull i was getting really anniod and pissed off that the shop was shut its was like at 11.00 at night .... so when mum was in bed at 1.00 am i walked a mile and half just for a can of red bull..... i ended up getting 5/6 cans of the stuff .... and yes again i was in hospital for the 15th time that month.... all the emergancy doctors and staff know me now.....and they ended up getting the medical chart and wack it round my head cos i'm a bit nieve about the whole epilespy thing and being such an idiot, i only got diagniosed two months ago.... and i'm still a bit in denial about it.... thinking i can get away with drinking alcohol and smoking a joint or two with my friends ... i know weed is ment to calm down seizures but in my case it doesn't.... i'm prone to partial status.... i which is not good at all.... but still me being me and a 17 year old teenager, its doesn't sink in as it should... yes i'm a student aswell and i work aswell ... long hours at college to try and make up for the time and weeks i have missed due to being ill and in hospital for weeks on end and its just too much... so what do i do?.... turn to the stuff that gave me and my writing hands wings!!!! and i thing i should go and chain my self to the class room table and then straight on to my bed so i can't go near the shops.... please some one put me under HOUSE ARREST! LOL so anyway i hope that gives you some answers to use query,. love soph xxx
The Princess yappy dog wants a hug!!! lov ya xxx