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Food-Triggered Siezures
Sun, 05/18/2008 - 14:10Comments
Re: Food-Triggered Siezures
Submitted by carlygirl on Thu, 2009-04-30 - 19:49
Re: Food-Triggered Siezures
Submitted by teachergreen on Sat, 2009-10-17 - 15:56
teachergreen
I'm thinking my seizures might be caffeine related. I guess the only thing to do is give up any caffiene altogether and see if it makes a difference. Except I went a whole month without seizures and still drank drinks w caffeine.Maybe I just keep wanting to find the cause and still not except I will probably have epilepsy the rest of my life.
Any thoughts?
teachergreen
I'm thinking my seizures might be caffeine related. I guess the only thing to do is give up any caffiene altogether and see if it makes a difference. Except I went a whole month without seizures and still drank drinks w caffeine.Maybe I just keep wanting to find the cause and still not except I will probably have epilepsy the rest of my life.
Any thoughts?
Re: Food-Triggered Siezures
Submitted by George R on Wed, 2009-04-29 - 22:06
You'd think that after having lived with epilepsy for 35 years, I'd come to realize that caffeine does bring on seizures in me! However, I still seem to drift back towards my all-important coffee in the morning...and oftentimes throughout the day. Many folks with epilesy tell me to cut it out entirely, whether it gets into my system in the form of coffee, tea, chocolate, whatever. Caffeine makes me feel quite "up" for a while. But maybe it's time to just rule it out entirely. Do you find you get more seizures after having had caffeine? Give me some advice. Thanks!
You'd think that after having lived with epilepsy for 35 years, I'd come to realize that caffeine does bring on seizures in me! However, I still seem to drift back towards my all-important coffee in the morning...and oftentimes throughout the day. Many folks with epilesy tell me to cut it out entirely, whether it gets into my system in the form of coffee, tea, chocolate, whatever. Caffeine makes me feel quite "up" for a while. But maybe it's time to just rule it out entirely. Do you find you get more seizures after having had caffeine? Give me some advice. Thanks!