Some bad shit went down last Friday night. I ran into some friends while they were on mushrooms on my campus. We turned around to leave and after a few steps we heard a thud and looked back. One of my friends was on the ground having a seizure. He was bleeding and unresponsive. We called 911 and he finally came back around, but he wouldn't stop trying to get up so we had to hold him in one place so that he wouldn't hurt himself. The mushrooms had just started kicking in about 10 minutes before we ran into them, so I can only imagine how horrible this was for my friend. He was brought to the hospital where he had 2 more seizures that night. Hospital knew he was on shrooms. Thankfully our campus security just thinks he was drunk.

Anyone ever hear of this happening? I figure my friend was just at a risk of seizures anyway and the shrooms triggered it.

Never heard of it happening before to my recollection and I've done quite a bit of research into bad health effects of shrooms. I'm glad to hear of your account of this though because shrooms make me a little nervous. I'm sorry that your friend had this happen to him but as far as I can tell maybe he was more prone to seizures .

maybe the dude is prone to seizures or whatever, thats crazy.

Yeah, thats what I figure. I haven't even talked to him about it yet though because he was in the hospital for 2 days and then he went home.

Posted by Logan Yeah, thats what I figure. I haven't even talked to him about it yet though because he was in the hospital for 2 days and then he went home.

Terrible.

I've heard of hallucinogens causing seizures in some people.
When I was in college, one of my professors got into something...they found him staggering around on campus at 3 in the morning, security caught him, he then went into grand mal like convulsions. This was from a straight up LSD trip.
If you're prone to seizures, sometimes this stuff can do something to trip the "trigger"...in most people diagnosed with epilepsy, seizures have some form of a trigger mechanism. Good friend of mine was epileptic, in his case, it was stress or strobe lights, if he was stressed out, he'd have a seizure. He'd smoke enough pot to start hallucinating, he'd also have a seizure.
Your friend probably isn't epileptic though and occasionally, no one knows why, but some people will just have a seizure for no good reason at all, no matter how many tests the doctors do, they just can't figure out what caused it or why it happened.

Shael

Does the guy who had the seizure take antidepressants? Remeron and Wellbutrin could both produce seizures when crossed with mushrooms. Hope he is feeling better.

F A S T

Posted by F A S T Does the guy who had the seizure take antidepressants? Remeron and Wellbutrin could both produce seizures when crossed with mushrooms. Hope he is feeling better. F A S T

Where did you read this? I'm not saying you're wrong, but I take wellbutrin and I searched forever for how it interacts with mushrooms and found nothing other than it may inhibit the effects. So I'm curious if there's more I don't know.

Wellbutrin's not supposed to be taken by people who are prone to seizures, mainly because it changes the brain chemistry and in some people that slight change can cause seizures, the thing with hallucinogens is they can cause seizures in people who have the brain chemistry but haven't had a seizure triggered. So, they could interact and cause enough of stimulus to cause a seizure, especially in people taking wellbutrin.
Usually something can be found that triggers a seizure, there's usually something that someone does or doesn't do that will cause it. At least in most people who have them regularly. Like my friend's issues, flashing lights or stress.
A hallucinogen also messes with the brain chemistry and again, that slight change can be enough to mess up the impulses going down the nerves to the body. Nerve impulses are all electrolytic chemical reactions either impaired or enhanced by chemicals released by the body or by chemicals that are ingested.
It's like the people that imagine that they have bugs crawling on them when they're tripping. The brain is telling the nerves that there are bugs on them, but they're not really there, it's just happening due to the chemical changes caused by the drug.
Similar chemical changes cause seizures or seizure like activity, but in the case of a seizure, it's the motor neurons not the sensory neurons effected.

Shael