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Could salvia possibly cause siezures?

Sun, 02/28/2010 - 23:48
  I'm 26 years old with no history of epilepsy or seizures, and in mid- november of 2008 i tried salvia for the firsttime, it was really strange, you lose your sense of self. Everything was ok until december, when i had my first siezure ever.  It was very strange, and snuck up on me, it's taken me time to indentify and kind of deal with it.  I would have them twice a week, but after awhile they stopped, but only for a period of 7 months, after that they returned with a vengeance. i was having sometimes 2 a day, sometimes 3 a week, sometimes once a week. Seemed like my seizures were rather fickle.  It's really tough at work,( i work at UPS) and more often then not i hurt myself.  Now, after they came back i decided to see a nuerologist, and went to get an EEG and an MRI.  Well, my doctor seems to think i have complex partial with secondary generalization, i believe it is.  That's all well and good, but i have a problem with that.  When i look up things about complex partial, they always mention staring, picking at shirt, saying phrases, and you see auras.  I have none of that.  My vision and hearing become vivid.  My sight, well, it seems like lights are too bright, but not unendurable.  Now my hearing, that's the one. Any sound i hear, be it music, voices, machinery, etc. is cacophonic.  Completely unendurable, and i have a strange uncomfort about me, not a nauseous feeling, but rather a feeling of "not right" if that's understandable. IT feels like there's a piece of me that's wrong, and i get slightly dizzy, but instead of looking around and picking at my shirt, i lose all conciousness.  I've smacked my head against machines at full force at work, and i've had to be put on disability leave.  None of these symptoms match with complex partial from what i've seen, but then again i'm not a doctor and new to siezures. My girlfriend has witnessed some of them, she says my eyes dilate, sometimes roll back. sometimes i look like i'm strecting, sometimes i convulse.  afterwards, i either throw up or go to the bathroom(very quickly).  Since the nuerologist i go to has never even heard of slavia, iwas hoping maybe someone could help shed somelight on this. I'd appreciate it. -rory

Comments

I also have suffered eyes

Submitted by alexandersunarizona@gmail.com on Wed, 2015-04-08 - 00:00
I also have suffered eyes roll back seizures from smoking too much salvia.

Been battling seizures for

Submitted by alexandersunarizona@gmail.com on Wed, 2015-04-08 - 00:00
Been battling seizures for more than 4 years now

 Hey Ember, do you know if

Submitted by Bbrody on Thu, 2018-05-17 - 07:05
 Hey Ember, do you know if your friend had epilepsy? 

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