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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Epilepsy / August 2003

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salt level and triggers and aura's!

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Jim Garland - 14 Aug 2003 13:22 GMT
Hi all.>
I was at my doctors 2 days ago as I had my levels taken of tegritol and I
am in 42 or right in the theurapeudic range!! as they like to say..
-I had 2 siezures in the past mth and had triggers that seemed to cause
both...
both were late nites"one with a little more wine than I should have and the
other just late cause I couldnt sleep..
in both cases I didn't listen to my body and stop I kept pushing myself and
as a result boom!! drop on the floor and nice scrape to the head from the
carpet in my office!! but much better now!>>
anyway..sorry for rambling...!!!
-the doctor is concerned as I have high blood pressure and we are trying to
get that down but also my saline//salt level is lower than what he
wants?....and he is wondering if that may be lowering my tolerance to
siezures etc???
anyone ever hear of that before???
cheers...
gaross - 14 Aug 2003 18:45 GMT
If you're mixing Tegretol and Alcohol, skip the salt as a cause of 'carpet
burn'.
 Ask the Dr. how those two mix. (Your pharmacy might have a printout, or it
might be on the efa.org medications glossary also. Tegretol (Carbamazepine)
is one of the aed's that has a 'non-linear absorption rate' of alcohol.)
  I have no idea what my Therapeutic levels are or would be. I've used
Tegretol CR since 1995 G.R.

> Hi all.>
>  I was at my doctors 2 days ago as I had my levels taken of tegritol and I
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> anyone ever hear of that before???
> cheers...
Mike - 16 Aug 2003 03:20 GMT
Wow, your levels are 42?  Mine are always around 20, how much tegretol do
you take a day and do you notice many side affects.
Mike

> Hi all.>
>  I was at my doctors 2 days ago as I had my levels taken of tegritol and I
[quoted text clipped - 13 lines]
> anyone ever hear of that before???
> cheers...
 
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