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My first notice on what has helped me
Sat, 07/18/2015 - 00:18My name is Steven. I, like you, have seizures. Not every day. Maybe with different effects.
What I can say is that I've had them for almost 10 years now. They started after I ended a term of the South Beach Diet. I've tried medicines, VNS, other hospital time and exams, like you probably have as well.
I want to let you know that corn causes my seizures. Anything corn related/derived (dextrose, maltodextrine, so many things) causes them. I stopped eating such things, and for over six weeks at different times, when I foolishly ate something questionable, I would have a seizure about 24 hours later, the larger amount of bad food, the larger amount of seizure effect.
I definitely can't guaruntee that it may help you, but if you, like me, were unable to find help in the VNS, brain surgery, and feel at the end of your options, I invite you to begin this diet and find if it helps your seizure decrease in consistancy and power.
A website that shows the ingredients to avoid in food that you purchase: http://tiger.towson.edu/~kwynn1/art365/projectb/ingredients.html
And anyone reading this who is not epileptic, but studying our difficulty and doing what they can to help us, I invite you to look into this and see if it helps others with a similar cause. I don't expect myself to be the only one with this cause, and share this so that I can give a helpful hand to my fellow men, both those suffering, and those helping.
Thank you for providing this website, and for the large amount of things that you and other doctors have learned and provided for our sake. Please continue learning new things for our sake, that we may find a normal life again.