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Smoking Cigarettes And Marijuana, Excess Drinker, Had 3 Seizures. Reason For Seizures?
Im a 54 year old male that has been smoking cigs sinse I was 11 smoking marijuana since I was 14 and drinking large amounts of alcohol between the ages of 18 and 35. In the last 8 years I have had 3 seizures 1 8years ago in my sleep two just lately . One at work and one in the hospital in front of medical staff. After blood work and MRI EEG and CT scan. FOUR different DRs could not tell me why I was having seizures and told me that the memory loss was called TRANS GLOBAL AMNESIA and that it was not EPELEPSY . what to do now.
Mon, 7 Oct 2013
The seizures may be due to metabolic encephalopathy.All investigations with reg.to LFT,RFT,S.ELECTROLYTES SHOULD BE PERFORMED.Whatever may be the etiology,ANTI-CONVULSANTS SHOULD BE STARTED TO CONTROL THE SEIZURES AS THE NO.IS MORE THAN 2 ATTACKS.
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