Epilepsy Talk
Are You One of the 80% with Seizure Cycles?
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Seizure cycles occur in more than 80% of people with epilepsy, a retrospective analysis found.
“The patterns are important across the course of a day, but there are also patterns over weeks and months.”
Catamenial epilepsy — do you have it?
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Do you notice that your seizures worsen just before your period…or during the first few days…or at mid-cycle?
You could have “catamenial epilepsy,” or hormone sensitive seizures, a tendency for increased seizures related to your menstrual cycle.
The causes of catamenial epilepsy are not totally understood.
Tags: catamenial epilepsy, estrogen, hormone sensitive, menstrual cycle, progesterone
Marijuana’s time has come. ..
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“If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place.
Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.” — William F. Buckley Jr.
Americans have spoken.
Congress listened.
Marijuana’s time has come.
Tags: marijuana pros and cons, medical, recreational
Forecasts of epilepsy seizures could become a reality…
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Seizures are like a storm in the rain.
Not knowing when your next seizure will hit can be unnerving, at best.
Will a seizure happen five minutes from now, five weeks from now or five months from now?
It’s a crapshoot. Even with triggers and auras.
What you don’t know about your blood type could save your life!
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Do you know your blood type?
There’s a good chance that you don’t.
More Americans know their horoscope sign (66 percent) than their blood type (51 percent), according to a recent survey published by the medical laboratory company Quest Diagnostics.
Tags: Blood Type A, Blood Type A and B, Blood Type B, Blood Type O, health
Concussion diagnosis in 15 minutes?
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Can a video game detect a concussion?
Not exactly. But a computerized test, similar to a video game can do just that…
In 15 minutes!
New hope for drug resistant epilepsy…
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Drug-resistant epilepsy with uncontrolled severe seizures — despite state-of-the-art medical treatment — continues to be a major problem for up to 30% of patients with epilepsy.
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