While I still drink alcohol few times I never get seizures and I’m taking 200 mg lamotrogine everyday I never get siezures or auras while drinking and sometimes up to 6 beers and I feel fine though I do take care of myself and my limit.
I have a mild moderate tbi and craniectomy done but still live a normal life thank god
I never drink alcohol anymore, other then having a beer or two wt family, probably about once every 6 months. Alcohol is an oxidant, and oxidants are already forming around our dead neurons, slowing down messages to the surrounding still healthy neurons. When I've had, more then 2 drinks, everything becomes more difficult for days.
I do use Mary Jane, about once a month, & Full Spectrum CBD oil every day. Both cannabinoids, THC & CBD, are antioxidants. They aid my attention, creativity, and problem solving ability.
It can impair memory in *novice* users, because the experience is new. Still because it does increase attention, and problem solving ability, once you get used to it, it shows you what is important to recall, and also teaches you tricks to hold on to those memories.
Six beers sounds risky to me. Seizures may not have any warnings and anti epilepsy medicines may not work.
Alcohol melts my brain, I say stupid things that don't make sense and get aggressive. I am currently going to AA meetings, brain injury and alcohol just don't mix.
My husband never was a good drinker but now after a severe TBI in 2018 it's a nightmare. He sees a weekly councillor regarding his drinking but still binge drinks when out or does stupid things like ordering a beer in a restaurant before food on an empty stomach. After drinking he becomes very verbally aggressive towards me and amongst other things it has caused me to live elsewhere.
I am his carer and am with him most days but I have had to move out for my own mental wellbeing.
He refuses to recognise what it is doing to him and has done to us. I need to lighten up apparently but his neuro psychologist has made it crystal clear about it killing the brain further, hindering repair, causing his death or further damage. He is a ticking time bomb due to the damage done but will not give up drinking.
It will be me and his 4 children who will pick up the pieces or worse if something terrible happens which it could through falling or picking a fight when out.
A living nightmare.
I'm 39 years post TBI and for the last 9 years I've been sober.
The alcohol worked at first in attenuating the increased stimulus but my reliance on alcohol got out of hand (to put it mildly). Alcohol brings diminishing returns.
Despite a very difficult existence post TBI coupled with neurodiversity and mental health issues, the past 9 years have taught me (20/20 hindsight) that there isn't a problem I've had that could be made ten times worse when I add alcohol into the mix, even when my drinking levels were on a par with social norms.
I also attend AA meetings (usually small rural meetings) and as well as helping me stay sober provide me with social contact in a structured environment.
I used to take 'turns' that started to happen 3-4 years post TBI (when my drinking was still 'normal') which a Neurologist diagnosed as seizures in early 2013 (just when I came out of rehab) and was prescribed Lamotrigine.
I took the Lamotrigine for 6 months but the seizures/turns stopped 3 months after I stopped drinking. It's been over 8 years since my last seizure.
adjusting to life post brain surgery
Anxious of catching colds, flu and covid-post brain surgery.
Depression/Loneliness after brain surgery.
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