Length of Time Seizure free and cure

August 25, 2008

Hi Pepper,

When I first discontinued all prescription medication, I was unsure of my

degree of success.

I knew immediately that I had more energy from the vitamins and or

nutritional change, but I was unsure if I would have seizures in the future.

After a

month on this new nutritional change I was looking for new things to do with

my increased energy level. I started a running program and worked up to

running 6 miles after about 3 months. But then I began to trigger a seizure

when I

ran at top speed for over 5 miles. This happened only when I ran, but did

occur a few times from 1979 until February 1986, when I had my last seizure.

After that I learned how to monitor my mental control capacities while

running. This involved being able to mentally compute my projected running time

by

adding my projected goal pace for the next mile to my actual split time (the

time that my watch recorded completion of the last mile), then if I was able

to do that I could continue, or else slow down and walk. Fortunately this

worked and I did not have any more seizures after 1986. I am still running, and

did not have to walk in a race until a race in June of 2008, on a very humid

day, I had to stop and walk in a 4 mile race in Central Park after the 3

mile mark. My mind was no longer clear.

Looking back on it, I probably did not consider it a cure, until I had gone

over a year, without a seizure, but the ones I had while running over 5 miles,

kept it complicated for my assessment of complete recovery or " cure. "

I did think those seizures while running were in a separate category from

the seizures I had before when I was AED's.

Arnold

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