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it was a while ago for Dave, but got dehydrated and spent a bit of time in a hospital and Chris has a seizure the other night and ended up in the hospital - actual cause still to be determined
 
I wound up in the ER with atrial fibrillation late last July due to dehydration. Scared the snot out of me. Ever since then I make sure to drink 64 oz of water everyday in addition to all my normal liquids. It took about a month to get my electrolyte balance to settle down once I first started doing it. When you have been living in partially dehydrated state, your body doesn't like all that extra water at first and tries to get rid of it constantly. It eventually gets the osmotic balance adjusted and everything goes back to normal.
 
Ddaddy said:
I wound up in the ER with atrial fibrillation late last July due to dehydration. Scared the snot out of me. Ever since then I make sure to drink 64 oz of water everyday in addition to all my normal liquids. It took about a month to get my electrolyte balance to settle down once I first started doing it. When you have been living in partially dehydrated state, your body doesn't like all that extra water at first and tries to get rid of it constantly. It eventually gets the osmotic balance adjusted and everything goes back to normal.
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Dam!
 
ScampMike said:
yea - if it was dehydration - that certainly didn't help
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That much alcohol in a short period of time certainly could have pushed him over the edge if he was. That's what happened to me, I was semi-dehydrated from a few days of hot temps and then had a bunch of beers the night before it happened. 12 hrs later, my heart was jumping around like a jack rabbit. One full bag of I.V. saline and my heart beat was back to completely normal in 40 minutes.
 
Ddaddy said:
No, there's no likely relationship. Your brain electrical storm was all self generated. Only time will tell if it was transient or has an underlying physiological basis.

A lot of times, these types of events are a once-only occurrence and the brain will auto correct whatever caused it.

Just keep the faith and understand that if all current scans are good, then it's nothing scary that can't be addressed reasonably if it were to ever happen again.

My niece had incidents like this and after a few times over several years, it was nailed down and is now well managed without further occurrence. Turned out to be the result of a fall she had as a child that caused a concussion and created an electrical tangle in the scar tissue that began randomly firing 20 years later. One pill per day at a low dose and no more issue. This is why I said mention the sudden memory restoration from the concussion you had. It may be something similar.
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Hmm
ScampMike said:
oh boy - Dave is going to jump on you - you may recall he ended up in the hospital with that exact thing..
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Yeah yeah
Ddaddy said:
LOL!

I actually think it was the six-pack in a bottle he had for lunch...and he had 2 of them!
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doctor ruled that out but I wondered the same thing. Especially being they were the only thing I drank Wednesday

ScampMike said:
yea - if it was dehydration - that certainly didn't help
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Who knows. But I'm pretty down right now. Most likely military career over
 
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