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I went from four seizures a day to none with the MAD diet, CBDoil and THC!!

Fri, 12/29/2017 - 18:56
I've been off this site since October, when I was complaining about the intolerable side effects of seizure meds. After talking to my neurologist about alternatives like diet and he told me it was a waste of my time and impossible and that I needed to keep on trying more meds. I stopped going back to him. I tried CBD oil and it really helped mellow out my super scary paranoid "aura", reduced twitching, and I recovered quicker. I started the MAD diet (modified atkins diet, like the Ketogenic diet but way easier) and I didn't notice much of a difference. I went and saw an acupuncturist and she suggested I get off the diet and try THC oil (she was able to prescribe me a cannibis card). I was honestly a non believer but I was desperate struggling with having seizures everyday and up to four times a day. The first day I took a little too much THC ( what the dispensery recommended )and I was so stoned I didn't have one seizure all day lol. So the the CBD oil and THC oil (very small dosage) seemed to be working well but I was still having one mellow seizure once every four days or so. The miracle happened when I started the diet. As long as I am doing ALL THREE AT THE SAME TIME I stay seizure free. One weekend we went to the big city (Albuquerque ) and I decided I was going to eat whatever I wanted, bang, the next day I started having multiple seizures a day. Once I ran out of CBD oil and I thought I would be okay for one day without it, and bang, the next day I started having multiple seizures a day and all my brain AVM symptoms got really bad. So through a lot of trial and error I've figured this out. Anyways, I'm so excited about my discovery and I hope its helpful to others. It's really changed my life.

Comments

What ever your do your body

Submitted by thewolf on Wed, 2019-07-03 - 01:41
What ever your do your body gets use to it.   Thanks for sharing.  Also Most Doctors only receive about 10 hours of Nutritional training so they just don't know and are not open to the concept.   .       

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