Hi Karlosimon,

"A Danish study reported that seizures are among the most common CNS complications after the ingestion of ecstasy. The pathophysiology of seizures due to MDMA use seems related to severe hyponatremia (Hedetoft and Christensen, 1999). "Psychiatric Controversies in Epilepsy" by Andres M. Kanner, Steven C. Schachter (2008), p.276. Some AEDs have the side-effect of users becomming "drunk" by drinking a bit too much water as another compounded threat.

Hedetoft, C., Christensen, H. R. (1999). Amphetamine, ecstasy, and cocaine. Clinical aspects of acute poisoning. Ugeskr Laeger 161(50),6907-6911. (Article in Danish) English abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10643376?ordinalpos=1&ito...

A wider report is at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1297063/pdf/jrso...

Tadzio

My heart, like everyone else's, also goes out to you. I'm 39, with a background in everything mentioned. I only started having seizures this year. Haven't really come to terms with it, but I gotta assume my drug taking past has to do with it. I felt I had to quit the lot now.

Obviously, at my age, this could be a blessing. But you wonder, what you wonder what you're gonna do with your life? On the high days. There are literally no highs left for me now: I don't drink, smoke, puff, take drugs, I don't even eat meat or dairy. It can be dispiriting. But part of me knows it was the high-seeking mentality that put my body out-of-balance. My body naturally runs on adrenaline, which probably caused my addiction to stimulants; something had to give, and it did, at 40.

If I had the time again, I have no doubt I'd do the same again. I really feel for you at 18, unable to experiment without this risk. But I'm sure you can see these people are right, you know the risks: it's a high, versus a public fit. Not much of a choice. Go in peace. xx

Really, however fun they can be, drugs are really not a good idea.  I DO leave marijuana out of the "drug" class though.  In the past I've done ecstacy, coke, various pills, and lsd.  Most of them, with the exception of SOME of the medicinal pills have caused me to have seizures to varying degrees.  Lsd was the worst at that, followed by ecstasy and coke.  While I understand the want to experiment more than most on here, it's NOT a good idea.  If you must at least be careful in how you do it.  How fun will your night be, if you seize at the rave and wake up after being half trampled and in the back of an ambulance?  Of course, just being at a rave/concert the paramedics WILL test your blood for drugs.  You could lose you freedom (jail for being under the influence of a controlled substance) lose your insurance, lose your job and so on.  If you MUST try street drugs or even something that is legal but you don't have a script for, do it in controlled circumstances.  I.E. in your home, or a friend's home with someone that can help you out if you do have a seizure.  Being epileptic and using requires massive amounts of care and caution and helpful friends.  VERY hard to do.  And that is why I don't do it any longer.  I wised up.

peace R.C.

 Hi no High!

 O.K. as dumb and simple as this sounds .

 WHAT GOOD WILL THE SHOW BE IF YOU HAVE A SEIZURE DURING IT!???. loud and clear right?

  you just just have to many angles working here the meds ,the seizures maybe a little booze, the anxiety from either doing or not doing one or all of the above.some weed, just the tempo and hopefully LOVE of the show.

  You need to replace the energy you hoped for with the forein aid and replce it with ENERGY from yourself and FEEL the show and hopefully come out CLEAN with no SEIZURE and still remember the show.

 Possibly even damage yourself in some other way ?

 even give the thoughtsto the fact you are going to ruin the show fro others "BAD KARMA" ALERT in a MAJOR way . they spend all their eneergy helping loving you and forget what they came for and lose their energy they needed for the show!

 YOU CAN DO IT and have still have fun JUST WITH OUT THE DOPE. it really is that simple.

  PLEASE take what I say to HEART. .

 Rick   long term sober ,drug addict /alcoholic, dead head ,life long ,full energy ,real deal, hippie type,seizure disorder,  AMERICAN, VETERAN,  maybe a 1,000 granmal szs, a living aura effect, add,adhd lol, over 100 dead shows, SHEW and I know now I could do it all with out the X, or the Lor the S or the D, or the beer in my hand .

 WOW ......sounds good huh! lol...truth is I would be DEAD if I still used anything and maintained a SEIZURE DISORDER ........Rick  BUT the ???? would be what would have they blamed ??? I say ME not the other items I chose to use! Rick