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"He injected a batch of laboratory rats with lithium pilocarpine, which causes epileptic-like seizures in the rodents, and compared the timing of the onset of seizures about an hour after the onset of laboratory-simulated increased geomagnetic activity.21 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." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"When neurologists hear of weird things happening when a person is falling asleep or awakening, they think of seizures. The neurologist called the cardiologist to discuss this idea with him. The cardiologist dismissed his concerns. So the woman's husband took over the management of his wife's illness. He prescribed an anticonvulsant (a medicine that interferes with seizures), and her bouts of sinus tachycardia stopped cold. He then sent her for brain imaging and was aghast to learn that she had a large brain tumor." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"In her twelfth month, however, she began to develop seizures. Multiple opinions and evaluations later, her parents brought her to my office having twelve seizures per day. There was no organic source for the seizures, so she was diagnosed with idiopathic non-organic seizure disorder and medicated. The medications weren't helping and there appeared to be no hope for the stressed-out new parents. With all of the conventional assessments being negative, I decided to look at the situation in a different way. I ran a series of alternative assessments." - Richard, Dr. DiCenso, Beyond Medicine, exploring a new way of thinking (Get the book.)

"At its worst, it can cause seizures or eclampsia and significant hematological abnormalities, including loss of the ability to clot blood. Kidney failure can occur. Usually none of these things happen, but because the severity of disease does not predict which women will have seizures, women with preeclampsia require protection against this risk with magnesium sulfate that is given during labor and for 24 hours afterward. Mild forms of preeclampsia are treated with bedrest. Severe forms are treated with bedrest in the hospital. All efforts are made to avoid delivering babies very prematurely." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"The second is to avoid the seizures that are associated with fever in some children (called febrile seizures). Febrile seizures occur in about three of one hundred young children with fever. Although horrifying for any parent to watch, febrile seizures do not lead to epilepsy or cause permanent brain damage or disabilities. Also, because seizures occur often with the initial rise in temperature at the beginning of an illness, and are not associated with the height of the fever, it is difficult to prevent them with medicines that lower fever." - Paul A. Offit, M.D.m Bonnie Fass-Offit, M.D. and Louis M. Bell, M.D., Breaking the Antibiotic Habit: A Parent's Guide to Coughs, Colds, Ear Infections, and Sore Throats (Get the book.)

"He prescribed an anticonvulsant (a medicine that interferes with seizures), and her bouts of sinus tachycardia stopped cold. He then sent her for brain imaging and was aghast to learn that she had a large brain tumor. This brain tumor produced seizures—not the spasmodic twitching usually recognized as a convulsion, but episodes of sinus tachycardia. There were two terrible things about this case. First, despite the advantage of being a physician's wife, this woman fell through the cracks of classical medicine, was told she had "nothing wrong" with her, and was abandoned as a "crock." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Tonic-Clonic seizures in Patients Taking Sildenafil," British Medical Journal, Vol. 325, No. 7 (Oct. 2002); 369:869. 20 Riazi, K., et al. "The Proconvulsant Effect of Sildenafil in Mice: Role of Nitric Oxide-cGMP Pathway," British Journal of Pharmacology, Vol. 147, No. 8 (April 2006); 935-943. 21 Striano, P., et al. "Epileptic seizures Can Follow High Doses of Oral Vardenafil, British Medical Journal, Vol. 333, No. 7 (Oct. 2006); 785. 22 Koussa, S., et al. "Epileptic seizures and Vardenafil," Revue Neurologique (Paris), Vol. 162, No. 5 (May 2006); 651-652. 23 Wright, P. J. " - James Occhiogrosso, N. D., Your Prostate, Your Libido, Your Life (Get the book.)

"The second is to avoid the seizures that are associated with fever in some children (called febrile seizures). Febrile seizures occur in about three of one hundred young children with fever. Although horrifying for any parent to watch, febrile seizures do not lead to epilepsy or cause permanent brain damage or disabilities. Also, because seizures occur often with the initial rise in temperature at the beginning of an illness, and are not associated with the height of the fever, it is difficult to prevent them with medicines that lower fever." - Paul A. Offit, M.D.m Bonnie Fass-Offit, M.D. and Louis M. Bell, M.D., Breaking the Antibiotic Habit: A Parent's Guide to Coughs, Colds, Ear Infections, and Sore Throats (Get the book.)

"Knowing that Ritalin, Adderall, and a majority of psychiatric drugs worsen seizures, I was constantly chagrined to witness how frequently psychiatrists added such drugs to the anticonvulsants essential for controlling the seizures of epileptic patients. Not only have they come to believe the diagnoses they make are real diseases, they have come to believe that the truck-loads of drugs they wield with such elan, are essential. * rk * In an October 3,2003, CNN editorial, Lou Dobbs addressed the issue of the epidemic abuse of drugs." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"Usually none of these things happen, but because the severity of disease does not predict which women will have seizures, women with preeclampsia require protection against this risk with magnesium sulfate that is given during labor and for 24 hours afterward. Mild forms of preeclampsia are treated with bedrest. Severe forms are treated with bedrest in the hospital. All efforts are made to avoid delivering babies very prematurely. However, when maternal health is significantly compromised, this measure may need to be taken. When severe, there is no cure for this disorder but delivery." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Interestingly, distorted or odd odors, as well as phantom odors, also can be signs of a certain type of epilepsy in which no seizures occur. They might also be harbingers of an impending migraine. DANGER SIGN Severe odor disorders—such as those that make food smell rotten all the time—can so disrupt quality of life that they can lead to serious depression. Indeed, a University of Nebraska Medical Center surgeon reported that almost half of his patients who suffered from smell distortions had seriously contemplated suicide." - 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.)

"Blank stares, high-pitched screams, and arching of the back; often followed by seizures. • Physical/mental deterioration. Difficulty performing normal activities such as talking, walking, or crawling. After your children receive a vaccine, or series of vaccinations, carefully monitor their reactions and behavior. Keep a written record of any observations or concerns you might have—these notes might be extremely valuable later. According to the CDC, parents "should report clinically significant adverse events even if you are unsure whether a vaccine caused the event." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Aluminum is also suspected of being toxic to the neurological, respiratory, reproductive, and cardiovascular systems, and has been associated with Alzheimer's disease and seizures. The use of aluminum adjuvant in many vaccines is of increasing concern to many researchers like Dr. David Ayoub, an assistant professor at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and medical director of the Prairie Collaborative for Immunization Safety. When combined with mercury, aluminum can produce a synergistic reaction, particularly in combination with testosterone. Dr." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Several states are considering bans on lindane, the organochlorine pesticide in one popular lice-treatment product, as a suspected carcinogen and neurotoxin that bioaccumulates in the environment and might cause seizures and deaths in humans exposed to it. But we still have a long way to go. Malathion, another main active ingredient in conventional head-lice products (and also flea-control products for pets), is an organophosphate insecticide that might be toxic to the endocrine, neurological, gastrointestinal, and respiratory systems." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "High prenatal exposures to mercury can cause mental retardation, seizures, cerebral palsy, and vision, hearing, and sensory problems. In the United States, emissions from coal-burning power plants are the number-one source of mercury in the environment. The mercury that these plants spew into the air ends up in our waterways, where it converts to methyl mercury and accumulates in fish, some at greater concentrations than others." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"All of the drugs in this group can cause seizures and catastrophic levels of anxiety and insomnia during withdrawal. High levels of anxiety and loss of sleep can lead to agitation and depression, and ultimately to destructive behaviors. Nausea, vomiting, weight loss, hypersensitivity, muscle twitches, and painful muscular spasms are common during withdrawal after prolonged exposure to these chemicals. Delirium, confusion, paranoia, hallucinations, and delusions can occur in severe withdrawal cases." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "When the benzodiazepine dose level can no longer suppress the overstimulated brain, or when the dose is reduced, withdrawal symptoms break through in the form of overstimulation along a continuum from worsened anxiety, panic, and insomnia to psychosis and seizures. EVEN ONE OR TWO DOSES GERRY SHANNON had a prescription for Xanax that she rarely used. It had been given to her by her family doctor to be taken as needed for anxiety and mostly she kept it in reserve. This was a time she needed it. She was recently separated from her second husband and the marriage seemed to be over." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"It has been tested in kids as young as three, and is considered effective for seizures in very young children. It is also helpful for some autistic kids with bipolar features. Lamictal is a med I prescribe occasionally. It is generally well tolerated, with few side effects, but it can trigger potentially severe skin rashes. Lamictal has been FDA approved as a mood stabilizer, and can be used for relatively extended periods of time." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "However, antiseizure medications also help a number of kids who don't have seizures. This occurs because antiseizure medications typically exert their actions by modulating the neurotransmitter GABA, which is closely associated with mood. Some of these meds, therefore, have been approved for both seizure control and mood disorder. I have achieved generally good results with antiseizure meds, which are also called anticonvulsants. These medications are particularly effective for the subset of autistic and ADHD kids who have bipolar features." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Catastrophic outcomes of toxemia include seizures, strokes, and failure of the heart, liver, lungs, or kidneys. Since preeclampsia is characterized by high blood pressure, it stands to reason that yoga, meditation, and stress reduction techniques would be a useful complement to nutritional, botanical, and conventional medications. Heartburn, Gas, and Constipation Hormonal imbalances during pregnancy may result in softening of the smooth muscle found in the walls of the digestive tract." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"An eloquent 2007 article in Endocrine Review summarizes its many beneficial effects, such as its ability to reduce brain damage, limit stroke, and prevent Parkinson's disease, seizures, depression, memory loss, and even alcohol addiction. Here are some highlights from this and other scientific journals: • Natural progesterone is made in a woman's brain throughout her lifetime. In menopause, even though blood levels of progesterone fall to very low levels, brain levels fall by only 50 percent." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"They may also signal sensory seizures, a type of epilepsy involving distortions of the senses rather than convulsions. And feeling numb and tingly can be a sign of several serious systemic and autoimmune conditions including hypothyroidism, diabetes, and sarcoidosis. (See Appendix I.) Sarcoidosis is a serious but rare inflammatory disorder that may at first manifest few if any signs. But as it progresses, sarcoidosis can affect many body parts, including the skin, eyes, ears, nose, and internal organs." - 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.)

"Knowing that Ritalin, Adderall, and a majority of psychiatric drugs worsen seizures, I was constantly chagrined to witness how frequently psychiatrists added such drugs to the anticonvulsants essential for controlling the seizures of epileptic patients. Not only have they come to believe the diagnoses they make are real diseases, they have come to believe that the truck-loads of drugs they wield with such elan, are essential. * rk * In an October 3,2003, CNN editorial, Lou Dobbs addressed the issue of the epidemic abuse of drugs." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"Higher doses were used for treatment of first trimester morning sickness (25 to 200 mg three times daily), but are not recommended before delivery, as higher doses may shut off breast milk in nursing mothers or cause the baby to have withdrawal seizures if commercial formula is given that does not include enough pyridoxine (B6).41> 42 However, when given during labor, vitamin B6 may prevent many postnatal adaptation problems by increasing the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood that supplies the fetus.43 Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine) Recommended dietary allowance (RDA): Pregnant: 1." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"A few types of drugs pose life-threatening physical risks during withdrawal, such as seizures and blood-pressure spikes. These physical risks can usually be avoided by taking at least ten days to withdraw. However, the feelings of physical and emotional discomfort associated with drug withdrawal can become overwhelming, sometimes necessitating many weeks or months to complete the taper. As a very rough gauge, it's not uncommon to require a month of withdrawal for every year of drug exposure, so that if you've been on a medication for five years, you might need five months to withdraw from it." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Multiple opinions and evaluations later, her parents brought her to my office having twelve seizures per day. There was no organic source for the seizures, so she was diagnosed with idiopathic non-organic seizure disorder and medicated. The medications weren't helping and there appeared to be no hope for the stressed-out new parents. With all of the conventional assessments being negative, I decided to look at the situation in a different way. I ran a series of alternative assessments. Thereafter, I developed a simple and conservative protocol and implemented it immediately." - Richard, Dr. DiCenso, Beyond Medicine, exploring a new way of thinking (Get the book.)

"While such an autoimmune attack is usually devastating, causing weakness on one side of the body, seizures, or even coma, milder attacks could produce fatigue and brain fog. So I add tests for thyroid autoantibodies to my panel to rule out Hashimoto's. A positive result here will lead me either to a treatment for autoimmune disease or a referral to a colleague expert in these illnesses. Mrs. Herrington, the patient with the low red blood cell count, clearly had an autoimmune disease attacking her blood cells. In the early stage of RA and SLE, fatigue can be a primary symptom." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"In drug labels that can be found in the Physicians' Desk Reference, manufacturers often stipulate the amount of time required to withdraw from their particular drug in order to avoid a dangerous physical adverse effect, such as seizures or blood-pressure spikes. The suggested withdrawal time may be no longer than a few days or a week. Beyond the warning to take at least ten days for gradually tapering drugs that pose life-threatening physical risks during withdrawal, there are no formulas to tell you how long to take when withdrawing from a drug." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Since they had tried VNS therapy with patients whose seizures continued despite the proper use of drugs, they did the same with patients whose L. J \J 1 \J \J \\ J I 1V1 i 1 w 1V1 J f\ l\ lit l\ Hi £\ i-t depression continued despite adequate medication. An international trial showed that VNS is effective, and now the FDA has approved it for treatment-resistant depression—not its original intent, of course, but a great development. Had the device never been used for epilepsy, no one would have dreamed that stimulating the vagus nerve would relieve depression. But the serendipity continues." - 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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