With your chance of epilepsy and seizures post stroke make sure your competent? doctor has a prevention solution for these.
10% seizures post stroke (19 posts to April 2017)
5% epileptic seizures after stroke (10 posts to April 2021)
epileptic seizures (6 posts to December 2015)
post-stroke epilepsy (7 posts to December 2016)
Just maybe you want your doctor to try these solutions.
Cannabidiol May Reduce Seizures by Half in Hard-to-treat Epilepsy
Or maybe the nasal spray referred to in here:
Preventing Seizure-Caused Damage to the Brain
The answers are out there, does your doctor know about them?
Mozart may reduce seizure frequency in people with epilepsy
A dietary supplement dampens the brain hyperexcitability seen in seizures or epilepsy
Could a Hypertension Drug Protect Against Post-Stroke Epilepsy?
The latest here:
Marijuana use linked to shorter hospital stays for patients with epilepsy
Key takeaways:
- Mean hospital stay for patients with epilepsy who used marijuana was about 1 day shorter vs. nonusers.
- Marijuana users were more likely to have epilepsy risk factors related to psychological conditions.
LOS ANGELES — Individuals with epilepsy who used marijuana had a reduced length of hospitalization as well as a higher rate of epilepsy event capturability compared with those who did not use marijuana, data show.
“We realized we needed to have a further understanding of how marijuana, specifically the THC component, affected patients admitted into the epilepsy monitoring [unit],” Oliver Hoerth,
of the division of epilepsy in the department of neurology at the Mayo
Clinic, told Healio at the American Epilepsy Society annual meeting.
Hoerth and colleagues examined how cannabis use among individuals with epilepsy impacted admission, length of stay and the ability to record an epilepsy-related event within the Mayo Clinic’s epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU).
They conducted a retrospective chart review using 2023 admissions data on 191 patients with epilepsy. Among them, 130 were classified as not currently using marijuana, with the remaining 61 classified as current users.
The event capturability analysis included 151 patients who were admitted to the EMU for spell classification, of whom 98 were marijuana nonusers and 53 were users. Among these patients, 64 nonusers and 44 users had an event captured.
According to the results, the mean total length of EMU stay was 3.8 days for the entire original patient dataset, including 4.1 days for marijuana nonusers and 3.2 days for marijuana users.
The researchers also found that individuals using marijuana recorded an 18.1% increase in event capturability rate compared with patients not using marijuana.
Data further showed that marijuana users were more likely to possess specific epilepsy risk factors related to psychological conditions such as physical, sexual and other mental abuse, as well as major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder.
“Further research is needed to explore the neuropsychological impacts of marijuana use in epilepsy patients,” Hoerth and colleagues wrote. “Including its effects on cognitive function, mood disorders and overall brain health.”
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