Keppra and sleep
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After a very frightening last 2 weeks of my boyfriend on Keppra my doctor did say to ween him off which I've done. Today is the first day off it and he still seems to have the dillusional aggressive side effects that I am hopeful after reading your post.....I pray to god that the old person before this drug comes back. How was those last few weeks for your son?
Was on lamicatal er when shaking started on right side of body but had a allergic reaction to it..
ve notice a change in my paitence level with my niece, my co workers, mother, driving in traffice, and even stress at work. Its an amazing turn around. I have been trying to get a lot of sleep and eat healthy too. I think it all plays into my mood, but after the first 3 weeks of being on Citalopram I noticed a change, that was simply amazing. Thanks for your post!
I read something on rxlist about moodswings and irritibility related to Keppra. It's believed that Keppra makes your brain "dump" Vitamin B6 at times which lowers dopamine or seratonin levels and makes you feel horrible.
Does your daughter take vitamins? I'd try some Vitamin B6 if her multivitamin doesn't contain it. I started taking Trader Joe's High Potency vitamins and feel much, much better since starting.
Good luck.
Well I was originally prescribed bupropion for anti-depression and ambien for a sleep aide but I was then taken off the sleep aide and switched to citalopram. I recently, within the last 6 months, took myself off of the celexa and i drink occasionally but not excessively anymore. I understand that the medication switch and then my decision to stop taking them add to the increased risk of seizure, alcohol lowers your threshold, as does sleep deprivation and stress.
My daughter is now experiencing several side effects to keppra. She is extremely drowsy, very short tempered, depressed, and is reporting to me that her memory is 'foggy'. She's on a very low dose of keppra, only 250 mg at night and 125 mg in the morning. She's been on it a total of 3 weeks now. I've been with her and she seems to be very melancholy and also short fused over the many situations. She weighs 100 pounds and is 20 years old.
Paul. They put him the Epilepsy Unit and did an EEG. They found 5 other Myclonic seizures in his sleep. MRI looked fine and all blood tests came back fine. They diagnosed him with Generalized Infant Benign Epilepsy. They put him on Keppra. So far I have only witnessed 2 little jerks, I guess they are Myoclonic seizures. I noticed that he has not been sleeping well at all. He also cries alot over little things, where he never cried much at all.
I had a seizure in my sleep Thursday night. I was perscribed 500mg Keppra twice daily.
I took my first pill at 1:30 and felt high all night. I finally went to bed at 8pm without taking another and slept until 9:30am!!! I have a 2 year old. I have no idea how long she was awake and waiting for me.
I am afraid to take another dose. I can't sleep like that. Is this a side effect of the medicine? Or still fatigue from actually having a seizure?
If the present drugs are inadequate, then additional anti-seizure drugs may be given or the dose of the present drugs adjusted. The lack of sleep may also contribute to this, since neurons are easily depolarized and excited by the lack of sleep. Other drugs would include carbamazepine, neurontin, or valproic acid, but I suggest you talk to her neurologist about this first.
I hope the seizures can be controlled soon. Regards and God bless.
I started having seizures when I was 12 yrs. and they put me on dilantin and other meds. they never got under control so good until I went to a new doctor (because I moved) and at that time I was about 38, and the doctor did a MRI and other test. He then said to me the first thing we have to do is get you off of dilantin. He showed me that that pill was eating up half of my brain (it is called cerebellar atrophy). He slowly put me on different levels of Keppra and I haven't been better.
They are like a partial complex seizure. I saw a neurologist and was started on Keppra. I was up to 2,500mg a day and they were not stopping. I began to track them carefully and I believe I saw a pattern of only during the 2nd half of my monthly cycle, days 15 - 28 (and usually between 18 and 21) My neurologist decided to put me in the hospital to do a video EEG monitoring and I told him the dates it needed to be. We hit it right and it was determined that my seizures are NES.
Now he can only be described as disrespectful, disobedient, argumentative, rude and sometimes enraged. Hence ‘Keppra rage.’ He finally being weaned off Keppra and onto Vimpat. We pray that this is the answer. What happened to our silly, fun-loving, laid-back boy? Any idea that this is “just teenage hormones” is completely misguided. This is my fourth son and also fourth TEEN aged son.
Keppra made me sleep all day and I also tried to kill myself by overdosing. I stopped it and that morning I felt electricity run down my legs in waves, then it was like some hands were around my throat choking me and I started screaming help, but I didn't really control what I was saying. It's like something else was speaking instead of me. Can't really explain. But after that day, I didn't have any more seizures.
ve been on 2500mg of Keppra and am waiting for a brain MRI, day study, sleep study and a 48 hr EEG. But I have noticed if I don't eat, I start limping, my right foot goes inward, I start twitching and it is hard to speak. I am unsure if it is just low blood sugar because the same thing happened before my first seizure and when I went to the hospital, they said my sugar level was good to go.
Any advice?
re not quite so active. Essentially an electric storm was building in my spine, and then going off. The Keppra shut all that stuff off.
Before I was diagnosed with myoclonus, I thought it might be dystonia. But with dystonia, the involuntary movement doesn't go on and off - it stays on. It's also a problem with the basal ganglia rather than the white matter.
I also had a long year where I kept smelling this strange nasty smell - like wet burning moldy paper.
i am confused now because this is rather sudden and my son is used to the valparin now and has no side effects as such. the doctor says that this is for better seizure control since eeg is abnormal but the eeg has been abnormal for the past 8 years then why now? i am all confused and when i told the doctor i will change medication only during vacation time so that i can moniter him.
I to have been taking Keppra and told can't drive for six months, yesterday my Oncologist informed me that only a Neurologist can authorize driving and I will need to probably get off keppra to get permission to drive. Was also informed that you can not just stop this drug.
I get upset before having a seizure. sometimes off and on in the evening when i start settling down and then after going to sleep i have a big one. Sort of like people with pms. I pretty much get all the symptoms. I just finished (2 days ago) a video eeg that lasted 8 days. I had one of the spells and the readings showed my spikes were rising from f4 where they usually are at to f8 where i had a partal seizure. After words i fell deep asleep. I woke up to the doctors..
There are a number of things that can cause grand mal seizures (low blood sugar, drug interactions / withdrawal, head injuries, epilepsy, etc), but anxiety / panic is not one of them. If the medication you are currently on is not working, you must let your doctor know asap. These seizures rarely cause death... so you don't have to worry about them killing you in and of themselves. However, they can certainly cause injuries from falls and such.
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