[matt04gto]

Hi everyone im new here and I'm not sure what I have so I thought mabye someone would mabye have a clue. I am 19 and a freshman in college and I have never had any previous problems with my head or anything.

Last fall of this school year I was going to the gym often like I usually do. (I've always been pretty athletic playing ice hockey and other sports since I could walk. Im not allergic to any medicines or anything like that.) So since Im working out alot Im drinking alot of milk because its a good source of protein, and ive never had any trouble with drinking milk. I would drink up to 30 ounces a day even. Anyhow so one day I went to my biology lab and we were doing an experiment with a chemical called rennin or rennet, that is naturally occuring in milk. We would put some rennin in the milk and the milk would curdle and it wasnt anything too exciting. Anyhow one of my lab parters smelled the milk and said that one of them smelt really bad and insisted that I would smell it. I said no because why would I want to smell something bad. He Still he insisted and so I did and after I did I became very light headed, almost like a high feeling and my head became very tingly. I went over to my lab instructor and asked what was the stuff in the tube because I just got really lightheaded from it and I felt like I was going to fall down. She took me out into the hall and gave me some water to drink hoping that it would just go away. It stayed with me for about 5 minutes and then I wansnt very dizzy anymore. I went into my professors office and asked him what he thought might of happened. He said that I prob just had an alergic reaction and didnt seem that worried about it. Later on that day I started noticing that my head had this tingly feeling that wouldnt go away. I thought to myself that it would probly go away on its own and everything would be fine. However every time I tried to eat something that had diary in it, or I smelt something really strong, the same dizzyness feeling would come back. It took me some time to figure out that it was the dairy and it made me scared because alot of food has dairy in it and Ive always been able to eat what I like. For the next few weeks this continued and I had talked to my dad occasionaly about what was happening and we tried to figure out what this was all about.

About around this time I started haviing trouble sleeping, and had alot of anxiety when taking medicine or eating certain things. This is when I called my freinds dad who is a doctor in Houston. I told him my symptoms and he said that I would have to come down and get a few tests done. I got an mri first and everything turned out to be normal, and then I got an eeg. During my eeg, my nurse was coming in and out of the room turning the machine on and off because one of the wires would fall off my head and what not. then she left the room again and I felt like I knew when she started the test back up again because I felt a little electrical shock. I thought to myself that mabye I was going crazy because I had read online that you cannot feel eegs. Then later on that night I was out eating and I started getting these electrical pulses in my head. Then i just thought to myself "oh great, first the dizzyness and now this." I wasnt very happy about all of this.

The eeg showed that I had extra electrical activity on the right side of my brain, and I was told that this could easily be fixed with some medication. I had a follow up after my eeg with another doctor who made me have the feeling that she thought I was making all of this up, and she said that she had never heard of anything like this happening with milk. So she prescribed me some lamatcil and set me on my way.

The day that I first had this eppisode was oct 25 and now here I am almost 4 months later with all of the same symptoms: dizzyness, elctrical pulses, and anxiety that I had when all of this started. I have yet to start my medication but I was hoping that someone knew what was happening in my head and why this would of all started with smelling some milk.

[cazzie]

hi i thought i would a rep to your message.
welcome to the fourm.
i'm quite new here as well i have epilepsy sence 05 but did not now what kind of seizure i was having in till spetber 06.

i'm sorry you keep going dizzer after smell things and drink milk

i had an eeg in aug 2006.

i take lamatcil.

do you have this with othr foods? the smell is the smell really there?

do you shake or anything like that.

take care

cazzie

[Porkette]

Hi,
Welcome to the forum! I've had epilepsy for 35 yrs. and 2 brain surgeries to help reduce my seizures. I ask myself if the chemicals you were working with created a toxic odour which in turn caused the dizziness. I've had this happen to me while working in Science Labs. As far as the milk goes your body could be changing and now you are allergic to milk. Take note if you feel more dizzy when you drink a lot of fluids, eat more sweets than usual, if that's the problem your body is taking in to much fluid which in turn causes more electrical activity in the brain.
If I may ask have you ever blanked out or felt confused or tired after this has happened and do you notice a rapid heartbeat? These are all signs of a seizure or anxiety attacks. Here's wishing you well and May God Bless You!

Sue

[matt04gto]

cassie- For a while it was only foods that had some sort of diary in them. Like cheese or butter or anything like that. And yes the smell was actually there, like for instance if I walked by someone smoking a cigarette or someone was using a sharpy in the classroom or something like that.

Porkette- I dont really get all that dizzy anymore unless I drink milk directly. I can eat cheese and pretty much anything thing else except milk. I get a little dizzy if I do drink it, but mainly I just feel alot of electrical pulses in my head. Throughout the day I sometimes get little twitches in different parts of my body. They dont last very long and arent severe or anything like that but I dont remember that ever happening before all this happened.
I have never blacked out or anything from it, but when I first started getting dizzy I would have a very rapid heart beat after, which I know is from me being frightened with what was going on. I was also under alot of stress the time tthis all happened. I didnt think I was but about 2 weeks before this happend I got the shingles, so Im not sure if that had anyting to do with it.
I used to never be afraid to take medication, and now if I even take a advil I will freak out about it because I once again feel alot of electrical activity. So now I dont take medication all that much, unless I have to. The thought has come across me that mabye its all in my head and I have tried to tell myself that this is all made up but Mabye im not crazy lol Im not sure.

[Porkette]

Hi,
My advice to you is to see a neurologist. I'm beginning to wonder if you aren't having myoclonic seizures since there's a lot of twitching and jerking going on. Take note if this happens early in the morning when you first get up or right after you go to bed because that's when myoclonic seizures happen the most.
Often if a person with epilepsy has been sick it will cause them to have more seizures because of the body chemistry change while being sick. I always have more seizures when I have a cold or a virus of some kind.
Stress and lack of sleep are the number one causes of seizures! Stress will affect the hormones triggering seizures and being tired will cause seizures also so try to cut back on the stress for you own sake.
You might want to check out this web page to read about different types of seizure. http://www.emedicine.com/neuro/index.shtml#seizures
Here's wishing you well and May God Bless You!

Sue

[Bernard]

There is a veterinarian who has treated canine epilepsy with diet and advocates a gluten free casien free diet for same (in both dogs and humans). His GARD diet (a modified GFCF diet) is only just starting to be studied clinically, but he has anecdotal evidence of success from people who have tried it.

My wife tried it and did not have good results, but it might be different for you if you have a severe reaction to dairy.

See:
http://dogtorj.tripod.com/id16.html for more details.