NRL immortal Andrew Johns says repeated head knocks during his rugby league career may be a factor in his epilepsy, and reveals he's had his medication dosage upped after two recent seizures.
"[The doctors] can't be sure what caused it. It could be something that popped up later in life," Johns said.
"But they think maybe — and that's maybe — a contributor could be some of the concussions I've had, some of the continual head knocks."NFL players reached $US500 million after just two yearsThe Newcastle great has been stripped of his driver's licence, warned not to surf alone and told to slow down his lifestyle.
"I was commentating and all of a sudden something came on in my body, where I went into this trance-like state," Johns said. "I went into this dream, it's hard to describe … like deja vu. You've seen where you've been before. Everything goes quiet. "It hit me and then I've come out of it, just sitting in the comm box, and obviously I didn't say nothing for a while."Later that night I went back to the hotel and straight to bed, which is pretty much a first, and woke up in the morning with two big puncture marks in my tongue.
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