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Epilepsy and marijuana

Sat, 02/05/2005 - 12:32
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 andred2010 on Fri, 2007-06-01 - 18:42
The cause of seizures is either from brain damage, whoever you want to those "disabled", or pot use. Theres a rare amount of left-brained people out there whos brains are effected by Mary Jane in the way that it causes scar tissue

Re: RE: Epilepsy and marijuana

Submitted by epileptic_rapper on Fri, 2007-08-17 - 04:19
i have had epilepsy for 20 years now. i have been smoking marijuana for about the last 15 years. i do believe that the addition of THC into my system helps. because, i know for a fact that if i do not have my dilantin then i can not have one nights sleep with out a seizures. but i can go up to a week with out it, by getting high every day. there have been times that i have not had my pills and no way to get them and i relied on the cannabis to keep me from having seizures. i have never known any on e that ever had withdraws from weed. but having epilepsy and going threw withdraws off of Methamphetamines. i was at a point that i could not eat for about 3 weeks. it was painful to eat i had seizures almost constantly for 3 weeks. it is just a point in my life that i would never wish on any one.

Re: RE: Epilepsy and marijuana

Submitted by atsax101478 on Fri, 2007-11-09 - 03:45
hi, im new to this site cause i just had a seizure and had 35 stiches put to my head and i also do chemo but i smoke the mary jane and it dose not have any affecton me it relaxes me more than anything and im on 500 mg of dilantin but the mj has a calming and hunger affect to me ask your doctor i did and he dint have a problem with it as long as it didnt trigger any seizures and it doesnt but everyones different ms. lady athena

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