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Coffee stopped my Epilepsy Seizures

Mon, 03/11/2013 - 14:53
Hi everybody, I want to share with you all some wonderful news. I've been epileptic since i was 8 years old. Their effects produced traumatic experiences at school at the beginning, but after I started taking carbamazepine I succeeded at controlling them. At some points of my life, epilepsies disappeared, but they came back again very intensively when I was 27 years old. This year, I started analyzing the non-epileptic periods in my life and I realized that in those periods I used to drink coffee everyday. I have to say I've been taking more than 3 pills of carbamazepine per day to be free of seizures in the last years (it makes me so tired). So, one month ago I started drinking 2 cups of coffee diary and reducing my carbamazepine doses every week. Now I'm amazed that it worked, my epileptic tendencies at the morning have disappeared at all, even without taking pills. I would be glad if somebody tell me if they know about this kind of solutions or about similar cases related with coffee. Thanks

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Wife also has an RNS inplant

Submitted by mommy8xs on Thu, 2019-03-07 - 12:33
Wife also has an RNS inplant and it seems to indicate highest frequency of seizures at lowest frequency of epileptiforms from the hippocampus.

I'm wondering why it shows a

Submitted by earthflat on Mon, 2020-01-13 - 07:35
I'm wondering why it shows a little symbol of half a man at the top of this page and it says Earthflat next to him? 

Nevermind, that was a stupid

Submitted by earthflat on Mon, 2020-01-13 - 07:39
Nevermind, that was a stupid question! It was my user name!

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