The Journey Begins

Featured by Candace, posted in My Story

Thanks for joining me!

Hi, I want to share a little backstory

  • When I was 7 years old I was diagnosed with partial seizures. My doctors medicated me with tegertol. When I was about 14-16 years old my doctor started giving me Clonzapan (I had absolutely no idea of the side effects of clonzapan or how addictive it is.
  • About 5 years ago I started having a lot more issues with my seizures, I was also having a lot more stress. One of my hospital visits, my neurologist mentioned I might have pseudoseizures instead of Epilepsy seizure like I had previously believed. Well I had know idea what pseudoseizures were, when they told me, I was making the seizures happen, well I refused to believe this, matter fact I was offended. Fast forward a year later, I was hospitalized again for about 2 weeks, they did a full week of a EEG, and they told me this time, I have both, epilepsy and pseudo seizures. So they medicated me again with Keppra 500 twice a day, Tegertol 200 Milligrams twice a day and the biggest poison of them all Clonzapan. Yes I know Clonzapan does control seizures really well however the side effects are horrible.

Last year, I decided to seek help for my depression and anxiety, they gave Zoloft 150 milligrams a day and Buspar 10 milligrams 3 times a day. My anxiety medications have helped my seizures so much ! So it brought me more understanding of what my doctor’s told me about pseudo seizures.

I also take care of my grandma who has dementia & a few times when my seizures were causing me issues I’d use her CBD oil and it worked faster than my tegertol.

Here lately I’ve been researching about CBD oil and I’ve read how it’s helped people with seizures. I decided I wanted to document my experience with going off my seizure medications & using CBD oil.

I am praying it works because My medications have caused me so many issues with the side effects since I was 7!

Btw I’m dyslexic so grammar isn’t my best subject and sorry this was so long 😘

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton