Molly did not cause my paralysis - Party drug user says she has always suffered from seizures

Three months after her story was highlighted in THE WEEKEND STAR on June 3, Jill*, a 22-year-old user of the party drug Molly is now paralysed from the waist down.

She is, however, making it clear that although her illness is rumoured to be connected to her use of the drug, nothing could be farther from the truth.

"People have it to say a Molly mi take and it make mi paralysed but that is not the case. People will always say what they don't know and assume the worst. Right now I am focused on recovering but watch when I reach back home because mi know who a say it," she told THE WEEKEND STAR.

Jill, who is hospitalised at a Corporate Area hospital, said she went to bed last Thursday in seemingly good health but had a seizure in her sleep.

"From Friday morning I wake up and mi sickness take mi inna mi sleep and from mi recover from the sickness mi find myself paralysed from the waist down. Mi trouble with seizures from I was a teenager. I am going to do a MRI tomorrow (today) to see what is really happening to me," she said.

A seizure is a sudden, uncontrolled electrical disturbance in the brain. It can cause changes in behaviour, movements or feelings, and in levels of consciousness. Having two or more seizures at least 24 hours apart that aren't brought on by an identifiable cause is generally considered to be epilepsy.

"I had an accident when I was 14 years old and from there I started having seizures but this is the worst it has ever been. I had fallen off a house top and from there I start having seizures. Right now I am in a lot of pain but I try not to put it on my mind," Jill explained.

In the previous article, Michael Tucker, executive director of the National Council on Drug Abuse, told THE WEEKEND STAR that the use of Molly is dangerous.

"It can cause serious problems with young people. It can affect their brains and affect heart rate, affect how they operate normally. [It can] make them do things they wouldn't normally do," he said.

*Name changed to protect identity