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Q: Epilepsy or seizure from marijuana ?
asked by: Kumar1 on July 19th, 2009
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hey everyone.

last night i went to a concert, and i smoked marijuana. i am 16 years old and i am a male. i have smoked marijuana before on numerous occasions and nothing abnormal has ever happened. i was high before the concert, and i smoked again during the concert because i felt i was losing the high. but last night, when i was at the concert, i think i had a seizure. what happened was i was looking at the performer, and i looked at the big video screen for a second and i looked back. when i looked at the screen, it was very bright so i looked away back to the performer. when i looked away, my eyes did not adjust. all i saw was flashing streaks constantly. then my vision started to distort. all i could see was blurry stuff. and in a way, it was grey everywhere. if you have ever seen the movie Pitch Black starring Vin Diesel, what i saw was the monsters vision. everywhere. it was grey, and kind of streaks moving away from a center point away from me. also everything i saw, turned black and white. no colors. i saw black and white checkers everywhere. like instead of seeing a person, i would see him as if he was wearing a black and white checkered tights everywhere. and i saw everyone like that. I'm sorry its very hard to explain. and i almost vomited as well. i had a VERY strong feeling that i was going to. i felt like it was coming up but i was holding it down. also i remember i had a little trouble breathing. then i remember my head started to tilt left. and i started walking into people. my friend around me said that my eyes were rolling back and i was sometimes jerking. i couldn't control what i was doing. i don't remember some of this. but i remember when it was happening, my memory was looping. it was like my mind was constantly refreshing, back to a certain point. so every 3-4 seconds i would think it was that point again, even though 10 minutes had passed. i had extreme difficulty talking as well. i couldn't form a sentence because my mind was looping. because of the 3-4 second mind refresh, i couldn't form a sentence because every 3-4 seconds i would have to start over from the beginning. my friends saw what was happening and got me out of the extremely cramped crowd. when i got out i was going back to normal. remember, all of this happened during my high of marijuana. i don't recall any foaming or anything. when i got out i got some food and water and i was just back to a normal high of marijuana.

Please, did i have a seizure? Do i have epilepsy? or could it have been Marijuana that was laced with cocaine or something?
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iNckTM
replied on September 14th, 2009
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thats been laced with something a lot lot stronger than coke my friend
ive had a fit while high but all i did is go stupidly dizzy and then fall down and do my business
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neuronutcase
replied on October 7th, 2009
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From your description of the events, it is most probable that you were smoking something other than plain MJ. Sounds to me that it was either laced with PCP or you were smoking Sally D. Visions and hallucinations are not that common w/seizures, but are very common with Sally D and w/pot laced w/angel dust (PCP). Have you smoked any more of this stuff, either before this night or after...ie did it come from your stash or did you get it from somebody and only had enough of it for that night? Did any of your friends smoke it and what happened to them? Did any of them experience anything similiar? Even if it didn't, it doesn't rule out the pot being "laced". PCP can give some a great high and others have psychotic (sometimes very bad) reactions to it. If you smoked the same stuff before or after, and you didn't have this same experience, then maybe, and I mean maybe, you had a seizure. If you didn't smoke this stuff more than that night, then you'll never know w/o getting checked by a Neurologist.
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