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seizures occuring right after eating

Tue, 03/07/2006 - 00:36
does anyone get seizures during or after eating? Im beginning to wonder if this is a high blood sugar problem or something, since the dr's dont have any idea why im having seizures. i can just be sitting doing nothing and my hands curl in. happens alot throughout the day. not on any meds at this time. just had 72hr eeg and came back "normal". what questions can i ask my dr. now. have appt this fri. thank you..

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Re: Re: seizures occuring right after eating

Submitted by abosmia on Sat, 2006-04-22 - 22:23
Yah, thats not good if your having seizures after eating. From what I've read MSG and other food preservants, even ones in cereals can cause seizures. Did for me. Took me ten times to figure out that Oriental food gave me seizures because of the MSG.

Re: seizures occuring right after eating

Submitted by Jana33 on Tue, 2006-03-07 - 07:35
Hi Well I'm a diabetic myself and I started having Seizure in 2004 thats when I started having seizure the doctor I had then order a EEG but it came back normal so he didn't do anything else. Your blood sugar have to be very very high or very very low to have a seizure because of that. My Sugar never did either. well the seizure did stop after months of having them. Well in 2005 they started back and at this time I had a new doctor and he wanted to rule out my diabetes causing it. i was having them every night two to three back to back. well he found out that my diabetes was good and that wanted the issue but they had stop after a couple of months. I was very happy Then XMAS EVE of 2005 I had two back to back. well since janauary of 2006 I have had 13 seizure and my doctor said no way so he sent me to see a siezure doctor which I saw 3/6/06 and he was wonderful and he listen and he didn't make me feel like I was crazy. I had a EEG and it Was normal but he told me that people have seizure and they have a normal EEG but I had wrote down every seizure and my wife and kids saw me have one so they were able to tell him what they saw. So write down if you can remember when you have them or if someone seen it have them go to the doctor with you if not have them write down what they saw. Oh ya check your sister before you eat and after you eat to see what your numbers are. Good luck to you.

Re: seizures occuring right after eating

Submitted by kristyn on Tue, 2006-03-07 - 11:30
hi there! I just wanted to make sure that you knew about reflex epilepsies. . . because it isn't that uncommon for people with epilepsy to find that eating can be a trigger, or even particular topics of conversation! (for me, all someone has to do is approach me about times and dates and numbers and I start to fade out. . . ) just another idea to throw into the cooking pot. (there is some good info on reflex epilepsy on this site) good luck to you kristyn

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