I stopped all anti-seizure/
I started reducing my medications about 8 months after starting the transdermal magnesium chloride every day. I started using the transdermal magnesium everyday in spring 2005. I could probably have stopped the anticonvulsants a year before I did, but I was afraid. For the last 11 months I had been takig tegretol 200mg every second day - I had been on 400mg of tegretol 2x a day.
I was afraid as I had been told so many many times that there was no cure for epilepsy and that I would have to take drugs for the rest of my life. And once I tried to stop taking the medications and had a Grand Mal temporal lobe seizure. Another time when I was taking Dilantin, I had been taking only one capsule a day for a year and been controlled so my neurologist thought that I might not need anticonvulsants anymore and told me to stop taking the dilantin. 36 hours later I had a Grand Mal convulsion in the shower. So I had a history of sometimes being controlled by very little drugs. So even though I had been taking so little tegretol for 11 months, I was still scared to stop it completely.
I really wish that I had done more research years before. It is not new knowledge that all epileptics are magnesium deficient. It is not a new knowledge that magnesium deficiency causes seizures. It is not a new knowledge that anticonvulsants and antibiotics deplete magnesium. There are even studies showing that epileptics stop having seizures when treated with magnesium - this is not new knowledge either.
blessings
Shan
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> Do I understand you to say that you have stopped all anti-convulsive med and are only taking magnesium?
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> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 9:10 PM
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> I find this interesting. Especially since I and my parents were told that the Petite Mal seizures I had were genetic. In fact, one Neurologist told me that I was 'testbook case', and I certainly was according to the waves and spikes of the EEG. But I guess genetics must be able to be changed or cured with magnesium - because I have not had those seizures since I stopped the anticonvulsants. Of coarse the fact that anticonvulsants deplete magnesium may have been a factor.....I guess it should not be suprising to me that with many epileptics their seizuers get worse with time.
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> It is really wonderful to be able to drive a car now and I love my bike.
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> blessings
> Shan
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