Epilepsy and marijuana

I kinda of blaze through all the post and see others using MJ for sez's. Here's my 2. I been sez's since oct 1988 and have had a countless amount of sez's. During this time I've been on so many pills I can't really think of all them. Seems like doctors/nerous and just plain quacks always thought another pill would cure me. I think one time I was taking 26 pills a day. For years I was out of most things from all the pills. Seems like they were making things worse than better. One day I was at a friends house and his son smokes pot. While there I had a couple small sezuires he gave me a joint to try. I stuff it in my pocket and went home. Next day right out of bed had a couple small sez's so I thought WTH the worse thing could happen have another sez??? I smoke about 1/3 of it and got stoned off my butt. It had been lots of years since I have smoke weed. That day I was able to funtion better and my wife even notice the change. My wife is so anti-drug like you've never seen but now tells me to go" have a smoke" . I still take topamax and smoke 2-3 times a day but having my life back is worth it all. Zen Matt Thank you for your support and I'll burn one just for you.....lol....marty

My experience with epilepsy and smoking grass has been that it really does seem to help. I've found that I have less seizures and the calming effect is a big help. I do not use marijuana if I need to be in public or any setting like that. It tends to be an evening thing for me. I have absence seizures in my sleep, as well as other types of seizures, and I've found that it really does diminish the number of seizures I experience! I know alot of you are totally against this. But there really are alot of uses for marijuana, that just aren't accepted in the USA. I think that it can have a positive impact on treatment of many different disorders. There are tons of med's out there that cause some pretty horrible side effects, and I think that if any of us can find relief in a substance like weed, it can't be a bad thing!