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Epilepsy and marijuana
Sat, 02/05/2005 - 12:32Topic: Complementary Therapies
Hi all, I was wondering whether or not the effects of pot on the brain can intefere with the effects of the epilepsy medicine Tegretol 400mg per day. I know grapefruit and alcohol have adverse effects on the drug's treatments and can lead to uncontrollabe seizure possibilities in some cases. However, in the case of weed I do not not if it does have any interference or not. So if anyone could help me here I would appreciate it. Thanks.Chris
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Re: RE: Epilepsy and marijuana
Submitted by Demon87 on Fri, 2006-02-17 - 08:00
I have had epilepsy for the past 11 years and no matter what kind of medicine the doctor had me on I still had problems with my seizures. I am currently on tegretol, which has done best for me so far. For the past three years I have been smoking marijuana and have had no problems since then. Marijuana has helped me with my epilepsy more than any doctor prescribed drug ever has, but I still take my tegretol everyday too.
Re: Re: RE: Epilepsy and marijuana
Submitted by atsax101478 on Fri, 2007-11-09 - 03:46
yup me too but im on dilantin
Re: RE: RE: Epilepsy and marijuana
Submitted by epileptic_rapper on Fri, 2007-08-17 - 02:44
i dont know if some one has responded to your message or not and answered your question. so i will now. schwag is a low quality weed