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SEIZURES DUE TO A HORRID MUSHROOM TRIP?!?

Sun, 05/28/2017 - 16:14
My name is Jenae, and about a year ago I was diagnosed with "epilepsy." I experienced a horrid mushroom trip that resulted in me crying my eyes out and being under stress I've never experienced before. Came to realize I ate the wrong kind of mushrooms. A couple of nights later I had a seizure in my sleep. They started off in my sleep but are very sparatic now, sometimes awake, someetimes 3/4 in one day. My doctor says it's odd because supposedly I'm the first patient he's seen with a seizure disorder like so. Normally, the individual has seizures on the right, left, or both sides of their brain. Apparently I have all three of those. Epilepsy isn't something that runs in my family and after a gooooood amount of research it seems stress and hallucinations can cause seizures, I believe my brain overloaded and that night something "snapped." Now resulting in this. I"m curious as to if anyone else has experienced anything along these lines, and if what your doctor says about your disorder. If the situation is different than mine, I'm hoping to possibly get their contact information to have my doctor Dr. Maa at Denver Health to connect with these people to possibly find an idea of what's really going on here. Thank you 3

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Good luck Jenae, alas I

Submitted by 777itch on Sun, 2017-06-04 - 04:44
Good luck Jenae, alas I cannot help. I am glad the mushroom trip that literally made me sober... didn't leave me with that. Truly, good luck. Seizure diagnosis is so... so... so very hard. 

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