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Marijuana and epilepsy
Sun, 01/14/2018 - 18:04Topic: Complementary Therapies
Hi, I’m heading to Amsterdam soon with my friends and I wanted to know if anyone had any advice about me trying weed or space cakes while I’m there. I was diagnosed with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy in 2012, I take lamotrigine 200mg morning and night and I have been seizure free for 10 months now. I find alcohol is a trigger therefore I have recently cut down on nights out etc. As I’ll be in Amsterdam I kinda want to try it out (never tried it before) but I want to check if it’s safe because I’m hoping to get my driving license back soon and I don’t want to jeopardise that.
Any info would be great, thanks!
Georgie
My bf smokes marijuana all
Submitted by Cpryor on Thu, 2018-11-15 - 10:48
My bf smokes marijuana all day everyday faithfully before and after he begin having seizures. He's only had 2 episodes (5 seizures total) but it doesn't really effect the medicine for him or trigger a seizure..He takes Keppra. I've actually seen research where marijuana or what they call cannabis oil helps seizures. Have fun!