Have you ever had a seizure from smoking too much weed or know of someone who has?
I think I have.I've been smoking weed for a few years now and I have been struggling to quit. So what happens is I quit for a few weeks and sometimes months and then I'm back on it. I recently started smoking again after quiting for two months.My brother and I were hitting a bong last night. I had more than four or five bowls. After that I started feeling very light headed and dizzy, almost on the verge of fainting. I wasn't worried because this has happened to me before. Once when I had never smoked weed and twice when I smoked too much. I later learned that these faintings happened cause it was really hot at the time and I had barely anything to eat.Last night however, got worse after a few seconds. The room was swimming. I thought to go up to my room but I could barely walk. I felt like I couldn't control my legs and the direction I was walking in. I finally made it up the stairs and went to the bathroom instead. I don't remember making the decision to do this and my room is in the opposite direction. In the bathroom I started shaking uncontrollably. I really struggled to keep myself up. At this point I think I passed out for a second because when I came to, I was on the floor. I don't remember how I got on the floor and assume I fell.For about 5 seconds everything was clear. I felt completely fine and headed to my room but the dizziness started up again. I woke up on my bed after what couldn't be more than a couple of minutes. Again, no recollection of how I got there and I had a loud ringing sound in my ear for a while. My brother came to check on me and I asked him to bring me a glass of water with lots of sugar in it (I assumed my sugar level was low). I felt a bit a better and fell asleep almost immediately.I'm not entirely sure what happened to me last night but I am more than sure it was caused by the weed I smoked. That experience scared the hell out of me and I know for sure that I will never smoke weed again. I don't want to risk putting myself in such a situation ever again.
Can i smoke marijuana while on seizure medicine?
Ask a police officer and be sure to be smoking pot while talking to them.
Why do people with epilepsy constantly blame their seizure activity on their illness instead of taking responsibility for their own actions?
as one whose brother was epileptic — please note we are talking about Grand Mal seizures characterized by thrashing, shaking, rigidity, as opposed to Petit Mal where the person just “freezes” much like a child playing “statues” — allow me to illustrate:I’m sure that at least once in your life you’ve had a “charlie-horse” happen — a sudden seizing of the leg. I’m also sure that you’ve had sudden erratic movements — sudden jerks - seizures — of various extremities.Those are simply explained as your nervous system “misfiring” akin to when a car engine misfires.You had absolutely NO control of the event, now did you? Right - N O N E!Heaven forbid that you have had or ever will have a heart attack — where the nerves of the heart misfire (fibrillate) and f not “reset” by a defibrillator can end in death.Now, for the epileptic, it’s not just a leg, or an arm or a region of the back, were one or two nerves misfire, it is a WHOLE BODY/WHOLE BRAIN misfire — everything misfires at once. It’s a “heart attack” of the whole body voluntary nervous system, that thankfully usually doesn’t involve the heart (involuntary nervous system).Just like those jerks, that charlie-horse, that heart attack, you can NOT predicate (tho’ some dogs seem to be able to sense them coming on in their masters) nor control them once they start.Sadly, there is no de-seizure device. The seizure must simply be allowed to run its course.Please practice compassion for those afflicted with this disease that in the best of circumstances can now be control “most” — but NOT “all” of the time, and in some rare cases, as with my own brother, can not be controlled well enough that they can live a fully normal life; my brother could not have a driver’s license due to the inability of medications to consistently control his epilepsy.
If USPS says the package was seized by law enforcement, what should I do?
I’ll start by asking whether the package being seized was a big surprise to you. I’ll also tell you to be sure to not ever answer that question unless it is with your attorney. If you aren’t terribly surprised by this, then I would immediately retain an attorney, and I would get some additional cash together to cover whatever the likely bail might be if you are arrested.If you were expecting a package containing something legal, then I would contact the shipper and/or law enforcement. The shipper can probably provide you with information about which department to contact. If you know there was something illegal in it, then don’t contact them thinking that’s what a innocent person would do…bad idea. Just do what your attorney tells you to do… which will probably be nothing until or unless the police contact you. At the moment, there is little to prove that you actually ordered whatever is in the package. If you start making inquiries about “your” package, then you start eliminating potential options for your legal defense.If you weren’t expecting the package at all, then it’s up to you. Personally, I’d just ignore it. You don’t want to get caught up in something. Innocent is the worst thing to be when the police come knocking.
Drugs that cause seizures, to get violent, foaming from mouth, long term hospital recovery?
Last weekend my brother did something with his friends, he took what they said was LSD or that's what they thought it was. So he took two hits they said, after a while he started acting crazy and then he got violent, he punched one of his best friends in the face, and his friends said that he collapsed and stated to have seizures and i think foaming from the mouth. They called 911 because they knew something was wrong. The cops came and the ambulance got there and they did CPR, he was rushed to the hospital and where is is now in ICU, his brain was swelling but that has gone down, his kidneys have failed and are expected to fully function but we don't know when, he has been on dialysis. he is not able to breath on his own, he is still on the ventilator. My parents told me that my brother came up with a fever but i don't know a whole lot about that right now. He has not waken up yet because of the medicine that they gave him to keep him seduced, they are going to try to wake him up soon. As of right now we don't know if there is any brain damage, we know that he is not paralyzed because he has been moving his arms and legs a little bit. But once he wakes up we will know if he can talk, or have any memory loss due to the seizures, that is the main thing we want to know. I was wondering what you guys thought, if anyone knew what kind of drug he took that caused him to be like this, or if it was just a bad LSD experience. I researched PCP because i saw that some effects were seizures, respiratory failure, and violence. I also heard from his friend that he took something called 25C-BomE, i don't know much about that stuff, there are also other drugs like that that don't have a name, the name of them is from chemical names. Or another friend of mine said that it could have been bath salts. I just don't know what it is and i would like to find out what drug he took.
Is a car accident caused by the driver having a seizure charged as "at fault" by the driver's auto insurance?
The accident was a year ago, and yes, my license was suspended for six months. My seizures were completely controlled for YEARS, but this one happened due to a med adjustment after BRAIN SURGERY. All is stabilized now. Would you show this level of "compassion" to someone with heart disease? After all, they could have a heart attack at any time.....
Why don't people who are epileptic experience seizures when they see the flashing lights from the police?
Epileptic seizures can be triggered by many things, including the bright flashing lights from a squad car. There may be other factors involved, such as forgetting to take anti-seizure medicine, or unusual stress levels, or too much sugar or caffeine, etc. Many people with epilepsy will understand their seizure triggers and take available precautions to avoid them. Taking medicine as prescribed is a very important first step in reducing the frequency of seizures.The newer LED lights can have very annoying flash patterns, possibly as a response to the tendency for humans to "zone in" on rotating lights and subsequently drive into the back of a stopped police car. I know that the basic strobe flashing is one type of seizure trigger, but I don't know if the varying patterns have the same effect.Here is some information from an epilepsy education site:Epilepsy and seizure information for patients and health professionalsTwo quick war stories: 1: When I was a student at Kent State University, I worked for the KSU student-run ambulance service. We responded one morning to a report of a person having a seizure in one of the campus buildings. The young woman was already through the postictal state and was able to talk to us. She said that this was the first time in six or seven years that she had a seizure. When we asked about medicine, she said she had run out of her medicine two days prior, but didn't feel the need to rush to the medical center because she hadn't had a seizure in so many years. You could see the "Oh, yeah..." moment as she realized why she had her seizure that morning...2: I made a traffic stop one morning and walked up to the car to talk to the driver. She had her hands over her eyes and she told me she suffered from epilepsy and she was afraid that my lights might trigger a seizure. I ran back to my squad to turn off the lights and continued on with the stop. Whew!
Please help: I had a seizure while driving in my car last night?
1) in a grand mal seizure, the muscles contract - a LOT. beleive it or not, you used up a bunch of calories in that seizure. 2) that depends on what the tests show, what your doctor thinks, AND what the laws in you state are. 3) in a seizure state your perceptions are altered - it may have been like you were asleep with your eyes open. At any rate, you entire brain was not working normally, so recognition was greatly effected.