Health - Cannabis and Seizures

[Matija]

SWIM told me a bit different story. He has a history of epileptic seizures in his 24 years of life. About 5-6 seizures started from age 8. 2 of them in this year. SWIM does not have seizures on regular daily bases nor is taking anitepileptic drugs (tegretol or like) but is taking some homeopaty drugs given to him by a homeopat doctor as he wasnt glad to hear that would need to take antiepi. drugs. And does not drink alckohol. Never mind this part

Anyway, when smoking MJ (or skunk as its called here-stronger than regular MJ) sometimes strange partical seizures happen. He describes them as beeing lost for a few moments. Not knowing what is he doing at this time at this particual place. Knows his name and the people arround. And knows he is having a seizure that will go of last about 10-20 secundes and all is back to normal. Like a computer restart he says. It happens from time to time when smoking stronger MJ or when smoking alot. Also it can happen if he talks to other people and tries to consentrate to a comlicated story or something. Someone explaining something from math or something while stoned as some of his friends study compter science. Its really a strange seizure that is hard to explain and the best word for it is "being lost for a few moments" after witch all comes to normal he says..

When talking about Grand Mal seizures with him the story is always the same. All is good until the seizure treshold goes down from THC. If he oversmokes and watches TV, plays a PC, or anyother simular "lightshow" enviroment there is a chance of Grand Mal. In last 5 years and 4 Grand Mals all were THC and photosensitive provoked. We all told him the same. When smoking, avoid dark places like disco, cinema or even watching films on PC in the full dark and its all ok. And that is fine for now.

He says, only problem are those "being lost" seizures. So if anyone has something like this SWIM will be glad to read about it and how to help him selfe.