Keppra onset of action
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Hello~That would be a question to ask either your physician or pharmacist, they are more knowledgeable in issues like this than I am as I am not a doctor.
Frequent high-amplitude monomorphic spike & wave complexes in the left occipital head region that are highly focal. Also somewhat frequent independently occuring right hemisphere spikes, max in the centro-temporal region. When she fell asleep, spikes in L & R hemisphere continue independently and sometimes rhythmically. L occipital spikes rhythmic 2-4 seconds. R hemisphere spikes 30-60 seconds. Interpretation: independent spike foci in L occipital region and R centro-temporal regoin.
Hi, I share my experience as a Lamictal and Keppra user (twice daily).
I took ONLY Lamictal before, it was good for a while, I felt good physically, but increased the dose to stop auras, and I noticed mentally my mind was in a terrible 'fog'. It was very hard to remember things, like words and if verbally asked to do something it just slipped from my memory all the time. I didn't like it.
So I switched to Keppra ONLY, it was good that it relieved the mental fog.
At first I thought this a side effect of the anticonvulsant I take (Keppra) -- the instructions say to avoid alcohol because very serious interactions can occur, although they never specify what those interactions are.
A couple medical professionals I talked to about it said that it's because Keppra increases the level of enzymes present in my liver, thereby speeding up my liver's metabolic rate. So my body just skips the drunkenness stage altogether.
That gives you cerebellar (shirnks the one side of your brain) put him on Keppra. My doctor put me on Keppra instead of Dilantin....I was already on diamox and tegratol. Now I'm taking keppra,diamox and tegertol and my seizers are under control, they will never be gone for good. I have had them since I was 12 and now I'm 54 but I'm down to about 3 every month or two and they were not under conrol that much until I started taking Keppra.
continued to increase med dose, now on 3000mg of Keppra a day. Lots of side affects, but they are lessening and medication is slowing seizure activity way down. EEG showed a few "abnormalities". Seeing Neurosurgeon in 1 month. All very new & scary!
Sound similar to anyone? Any advice on what to expect from neurosurgeon and moving forward?
How is his speech, is he talking? It appears the onset of his seizures were when he was one year old. Did anyone at the hospital back in 2009 refer you to a neurologist for the seizures? What does your pediatrician say? You should look at some of the screening tests like the m-chat to see if there red flags for autism. I am not a doctor but assuming the side effects of NOT taking the meds is "not eating" and "temper tantrums" is an assumption i wouldn't make.
I suffered with depression for 11 years and came of the medicine fully just before I went on Keppra, and yes I have days where I do feel depressed but with any illness you do have days where you feel depressed even suicidal. So my advice is don't necessarily put it down to Keppra. Talk to the doctor who prescribed Keppra to you and see if you can be referred to a Psychiatrist to talk it through and find out if it is the tablets!
Hope this helps and stay focused.
My brother takes 2,000mg of Keppra twice a day. He is now in the "donut hole" of his Medicare coverage. I am now paying $770 per month for his Keppra. My question is Is there some way he or I can get help paying for his Keppra?
It last from 9 months to over 2 years. It starts with a change of seizure medication or change in dosage of the same medication. One time it was stared with ativan and I now know the bad information on withdrawal from that drug. I was wondering if anyone knows of any information on long term use of epilepsy drugs like tegretol and any possible links to my problems.
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.
side effects of Keppra seem to contradict what our goals for mom are....memory loss, mood changes, mental changes and vision changes among others.
Is Keppra safe to use for this (it is not being used with any other seizure medication....just by itself)?
We want to wean her off, but the doctor is wanting to keep her on it.
m interested in hearing from anybody who has had similar symptoms, or a similar course of action before getting a diagnosis. I have never really heard of tinnitis or vertigo being symptoms of MS, and those are the main reasons I even started pursuing medical help to begin with. The doctors have ruled out some explanations (like the acoustic neuroma), but there are still other possibilities on the table (Meniere's disease, or even high blood pressure for example).
It kind of sounds like a form of Action tremors, but I have to agree with mkh9.
Could the heart rate issue be part of epilepsy, or a symptom of the angioma, or a side effect of the keppra? I have always had low blood pressure, and was glad because I thought it would lower the risk of an angioma bleed. (Not as low as it was getting after I started taking the keppra.) Not only that, but supposedly blood thinners like aspirin supposedly increase the risk of a bleed. The high salt diet has helped a bit.
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