This is Alisons Mum - thought I'd take time out to thank you all for replying
I'm not really sure what is happening here - I tend to think that the underlying cause is the recent flare and increase in pain as although Alison takes ketamine this is something we have tried to limit only to an "as and when required" medication as we both felt she was far too young to be taking large quantities of this drug on a regular basis
Over the past two months the passing out has been getting worse and predicatably happens around mid afternoon and then early evening onwards.
Following on from the back injury Alison was prescribed codeine and dicolfenac
She started taking this on Friday and ever since then we have noticed that when she passes out now she seems to have violent convulsions and shaking which seem to be getting worse
I've looked at the side effects of these new medications and it looks like codeine could be causing this - although it could be coincidental and be that this would have happened anyway
I've started reducing the codeine to see if things improve just to be sure that it isn't this new medication causing the problem
I'll keep you all informed
Thanks
Andrea x