Expert: Joanne - 5/16/2006

Question
  holly, im the one with the weight loss and pain
        
   Ialso started having sezures about 1996, my doc
    sent me to a nero.doc. but not until 2000 i had
    on clue about what was happening i would wake up
     with bites on my tonge and felt like I had fell
     down staires this does not run in my family
    and they dont know why im having them they but
    me on meds, havent had one in a while but they
    are grandma sezures, do you think my eating habbits
   might have caused this? you are the 3rd person
  that said it might be a food allerge im going to ask
  my doctor to test me for this . if this does not work
  im going to a different doctor

                    thanks monica

Answer
I think that you should try and get the tests done - could be an intolerance to wheat or dairy (they are the most common) or Irritable Bowel Syndrome or something along those lines.

It was about 4 years before I was sent to a Neuro specialist.  I saw him a year past December and he diagnosed functional seziures.  I was briefly put on epilepsy meds before I met with the Neuro Doc, but they did nothing for me.
I don't think that my eating habits cause them directly, but I think that the stress that I am going through when my eating is a mess may contribute.  I don't know, maybe there is something more physically wrong when I'm eating badly that causes them, but I am happy to go along with their explanation for my condition just now.

Holly