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"In the 1950s, it was recommended for epilepsy. A recent study done in Sweden showed that women with catamenial epilepsy (epilepsy that is more severe premenstrually) have consistently low progesterone and high estrogen levels. Animal studies of epilepsy have consistently shown that progesterone is directly anticonvulsive and that some of its metabolites have a stabilizing effect on the nervous system. The fact that catamenial epilepsy doesn't improve during pregnancy when progesterone levels are high suggests that high estrogen levels also play an important role in seizures." - John Lee, Jesse Hanley, Virginia Hopkins, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Premenopause: Balance Your Hormones and Your Life From Thirty to Fifty (Get the book.)

"From this Persinger inferred that above a certain threshold of geomagnetic activity, epilepsy is more likely to be triggered. Whenever geomagnetic activity exceeded 20 nanoteslas, seizures would occur more frequently.22 Persinger then discovered a relationship between sudden death—from epilepsy or SIDS death—and high levels of geomagnetic activity.23 Sudden, seemingly inexplicable deaths might have a rational explanation after all: people with weaker constitutions are at the mercy of the sun's restless activity. Strong geomagnetic fields also appear to affect learning profoundly?" - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Despite significant advances in epilepsy medication in recent years, some epilepsy patients still suffer severe, uncontrolled, frightening seizures. (Nearly two million people in the US have the disease.) Now, they may be helped by a new, small, battery-powered implant that sends pulses to the brain, much as a pacemaker helps the heart beat on schedule. The vagus nerve stimulator, recently approved by the FDA, is implanted in the chest and sends low-voltage electrical signals to the brain on cue, every five minutes through the day and night." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"The animal studies and human case reports are an alarming association, and certainly those with epilepsy should avoid MSG in all forms. One form of severe childhood epilepsy called Lennox-Gastaut syndrome was relieved by MSG elimination, as reported in The Journal of the American Dietetic Association.^ Removal of MSG led to normal development of the child in the case reported. The concept of relief of this condition is that large glutamate loads overwhelm the body, resulting in excess stimulation and upsetting normal body regulation." - George R. Schwartz, In Bad Taste: The Msg Symptom Complex : How Monosodium Glutamate Is a Major Cause of Treatable and Preventable Illnesses, Such As Headaches, Asthma, epilepsy, heart (Get the book.)

"The true cause of epilepsy is unknown. Based on clinical exam and brain studies, there are four types: grand mal epilepsy—major episodes associated with loss of consciousness; petit mal epilepsy—milder forms usually without loss of consciousness; psychomotor epilepsy—with different types of abnormal movements; autonomic epilepsy—associated with flushing, whiteness of skin, rapid heartbeat, high blood pressure, abdominal symptoms, and sweating." - Larry Trivieri, Jr., Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Edition (Get the book.)

"Ilo Leppik, a physician at the University of Minnesota, wrote to the company, asking it to pay $303,600 to publish his book on epilepsy. The executives agreed. One doctor received $2,000 to travel to San Francisco for a seminar after a salesperson deemed him to be "a great Neurontin believer." Dr. B. J. Wilder, professor emeritus of neurology at the University of Florida, wrote several letters to Warner-Lambert requesting money. In April 1996, Dr." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Tremors are also a common reaction to antipsychotic drugs, theophylline (for asthma), Dilantin (for epilepsy), and Compazine (a tranquilizer and antinausea medicine), as well as the herbal stimulants ephedra, ginkgo biloba, and ginseng. Tremors sometimes signal alkalosis, a pH imbalance (too little acid in body fluids). Other signs may include muscle twitching, lightheadedness, numbness, and tingling. Alkalosis-related tremors can be a clue to the eating disorder bulimia. The good news is that alkalosis is easily treated." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"His colleague, Julius Nyiro who also had heard or observed that epilepsy and schizophrenia were incompatible, had sought to cure epilepsy by injecting blood from schizophrenics into epileptics. Of course, it was just a guess that causing epileptic seizures might benefit the insane, but it seemed to von Meduna worthy of pursuit. He began testing the hypothesis using guinea pigs. The first experiments used camphor in an oil base which would then be injected into muscle tissue. After two months of testing von Meduna believed it was time to experiment on a human." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"Most cases of diabetes and of epilepsy (seizures) have no known or discernible cause or etiology either, making the cancer, diabetes and epilepsy no less abnormalities and no less diseases. Consider Lou Gehrig's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, no less a disease, no less a uniformly fatal disease, despite the fact that it's etiology (cause) is not known. Whether or not a patient complains of symptoms, whether or not the cause is known, real diseases all have this is common—an objective abnormality is demonstrable; the abnormality is the disease." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"They told him to call on pediatricians and ask them to prescribe the epilepsy drug to children diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. They asked him to press psychiatrists to prescribe it for bipolar disorder. They told him to urge primary care doctors to prescribe it to patients debilitated by migraines. The information that Franklin and the other medical liaisons were told to give to doctors about these experimental uses for Neurontin consisted mostly of case reports involving a few handfuls of patients at best." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "The crux of the illegal plan came down to finding doctors willing to be paid to tell other physicians that Neurontin was a miracle drug with uses far beyond epilepsy. The executives knew these stories would appear far more convincing if they came from physicians rather than from the company's marketers. To aid in this part of the scheme, Parke-Davis turned to the global advertising agencies of Madison Avenue. Executives at one of these ad firms, a company called Cline Davis & Mann, sat on the committee at Parke-Davis that planned how to sell Neurontin." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Alexander's pharmacopoeia, and those of his contemporaries, were heavily weighted toward spells, folk remedies, and charms, including the use of gladiator's blood to treat epilepsy.25 Cold water treatments had been a popular cure since the founding of the empire—Augustus, particularly, is said to have favored it—and one of the most famous physicians during the reign of Leo, Jacobus, earned his use-name, Psychristus, for his enthusiasm for the treatment as a sovereign remedy." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"However, there is a less severe and more common form of this condition, known as acquired hypertrichosis, which can occur as a drug reaction to some topical steroids, antibiotics, drugs to treat epilepsy, and hair growth drugs. Stopping the drug will usually stop the excess hair growth. Excess hair growth in men can also be a sign of a skin disease called lichen simplex, which involves thickening of the skin too. (See Chapter 9." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Longmire told the invited physicians that he had found that the epilepsy drug relieved his patients' pain, including those with an intense, stabbinglike pain in the face called trigeminal neuralgia. The only catch, according to Dr. Longmire, was that the doctors had to prescribe Neurontin at daily doses that far exceeded the maximum recommended by the FDA, which was eighteen hundred milligrams. "The problem with Neurontin in terms of real trigeminal neuralgia," Dr. Longmire said, according to a transcript of the speech, "is that it has to be titrated upward." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Other influences may also affect the timing of menopause: increased body mass index (being overweight), more than one pregnancy, history of no pregnancy, toxic chemical exposures, treatment of childhood cancers with chemotherapy and radiation, epilepsy, and cognitive scores in childhood (the higher the score, the later the menopause). There appears to be no link between age of menopause and history of hormonal contraception, socioeconomic or marital status, race, or age of first menstrual cycle." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Seizure-induced memory impairment is reduced by choline supplementation before or after status epilepticus. epilepsy Res. 48, 3-13. 116. Meek, W. H, and Williams, C. L. (1997). Perinatal choline supplementation increases the threshold for chunking in spatial memory. Neuroreport. 8, 3053-3059. 117. Meek, W. H, and Williams, C. L. (1997). Simultaneous temporal processing is sensitive to prenatal choline availability in mature and aged rats. Neuroreport. 8, 3045-3051. 118. Meek, W. H, and Williams, C. L. (1997)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "In the neurologic system, patients with celiac disease are 20 times more likely than the general population to have epilepsy and have been reported with associated cerebral and cerebellar calcifications imaged by both computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) [36]. In children with celiac disease, focal white-matter lesions in the brain have been reported and are thought to be either ischemic in origin as a result of vasculitis, or caused by inflammatory demyelination [37]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Coeliac disease and epilepsy. Q. J. Med. 71, 359-369. 126. Collin, P., Maki, M., Keyrilainen, O, Hallstrom, O., Reunala, T., and Pasternak, A. (1992). Selective IgA deficiency and celiac disease. Scand. J. Gastroenterol. 27, 367-371. 127. Collin, P., Korpela, M., Hallstrom, O., Viander, M., Keyrilainen, O., and Maki, M. (1992). Rheumatic complaints as a presenting symptom in patients with celiac disease. Scand. J. Rheumatol. 21, 20-23. 128. Collin, P., Salmi, J., Hallstrom, O., Reunala, T., and Pasternak, A. (1994). Autoimmune thyroid disorders and coeliac disease. Eur. J. Endocrinol." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Coeliac disease, epilepsy, and cerebral calcifications. Lancet 340, 439^143. 37. Kieslich, M., Errazuriz, G., Posselt, H. G, Moeller-Hartmann, W., Zanella, F., and Boehles, H. (2001). Brain white-matter lesions in celiac disease: A prospecive study of 75 diet-treated patients. Pediatrics 108, e21. 38. Hadjivassiliou, M., Grunewald, R. A., Chattopadhyay, A. K., Davies-Jones, G. A., Gibson, A., Jarratt, J. A., Kandler, R. H., Lobo, A., Powell, T., and Smith, C. M. (1998). Clinical, radiological, neurophysiological and neuropathological characteristics of gluten ataxia. Lancet 352, 1582-1585." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"The number of disorders that are commonly linked to foods is extensive and includes: ADHD Insomnia Celiac Disease Depression Crohn's Disease Allergies Colitis Eczema Constipation Asthma Diarrhea Obesity Rheumatoid Arthritis Lupus Heartburn GERD Chronic Catarrh Glue Ear Stomach Aches Acne epilepsy Headaches Psoriasis Flatulence Ear Infections Chronic Fatigue Recurring Tonsillitis Hives Bedwetting Migraines Psoriatic Arthritis Belching Food reactions can occur up to 72 hours after the food has been ingested." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Montreal Neurologic Institute,9 and we have received numerous reports of this phenomenon which mimics epilepsy and convulsions. Dr. Reif-Lehrer also described a 14-year-old boy who had experienced episodes of intense headaches and vomiting since he was ten. He had been diagnosed as having "a migrainelike syndrome or seizure equivalent." Eventually, his symptoms were traced to monosodium glutamate and the episodes were controlled. One grateful mother wrote to Dr." - George R. Schwartz, In Bad Taste: The Msg Symptom Complex : How Monosodium Glutamate Is a Major Cause of Treatable and Preventable Illnesses, Such As Headaches, Asthma, epilepsy, heart (Get the book.)

"Mood Stabilizers Some mood stabilizers were originally FDA-approved to treat epilepsy. With these drugs, there is a risk of undergoing a seizure during abrupt withdrawal. Other drugs sometimes used as mood stabilizers have only been approved to treat hypertension, and there is a risk of a dangerous blood-pressure spike if these drugs are not tapered. These medications are listed in appendix A. Stopping lithium has been shown to cause mania or maniclike withdrawal symptoms, as well as a general rebound worsening, including depression." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Let me make it clear that I do not use this class of medicines because chronic pain has anything to do with epilepsy, but because these drugs really do help reduce pain. Also, several of them have succeeded in relieving FM symptoms in double-blind placebo-controlled trials. Moreover, my own experience with antiepileptics has been positive, and their side effects are fairly minimal. One nice side benefit is that they often reduce headaches, too. The first one I use is gabapentin (Neurontin)." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Persinger then discovered a relationship between sudden death—from epilepsy or SIDS death—and high levels of geomagnetic activity.23 Sudden, seemingly inexplicable deaths might have a rational explanation after all: people with weaker constitutions are at the mercy of the sun's restless activity. Strong geomagnetic fields also appear to affect learning profoundly?often for the better. Increased geomagnetic activity enhances memory: rats exposed to geomagnetic fields learn mazes more quickly." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) "Persinger grew intrigued by a possible relationship between geomagnetic fluctuations in the Earth and the timing of epileptic seizures, after his neu-roscientist colleague Todd Murphy, who had temporal-lobe epilepsy as a child, disclosed that he often had out-of-body experiences while having a seizure. Some data had already linked an increase in geomagnetic activity with the timing of epileptic seizures.20 Could an epileptic fit result from geomagnetic disturbance? Persinger decided to study this possibility in an animal." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) "This conservative posturing masked a bold curiosity that led him into exotic areas of inquiry—the rhythms of biological systems, the volatile energy of outer space, the nature of epilepsy, the source of mystical visions—disparate areas that eventually converged in his mind after an extraordinary epiphany. Persinger realized that living things are attuned not only to each other, but also to the Earth and its continually shifting magnetic energies." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Since these side effects tend to disappear over time for patients receiving VNS for epilepsy, I expect that they won't be a barrier to the potential use of VNS to reduce FM pain. If this initial study shows that FM patients have no more trouble with VNS than patients with depression, Dr. Lange will mount a larger study to test the efficacy of VNS in treating FM. I am expecting this to happen. And of course, the side benefit of her study will be to prove that FM pain is in the brain and can be reduced without drugs." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

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