Trileptal epilepsy
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I, too, had Rolandic Epilepsy as a child, and around the same time I was diagnosed with ADD. It is a fact that Rolandic epilepsy is associated with mild attention disorders, and oddly enough, difficulty with drawing pictures.
Sometimes children with attention disorders/epilepsy do better with a "hands on" learning program that allows them to engage in the subject matter.
I’m on levetiracetam aka keppra and clobazam aka onfi. When I was on oxcarbazepine (trileptal) and levetiracetam (keppra) I started having these weird headaches where I would lose my vision, hearing, smell, and coordination, but I could still speak and feel. The doctors are pretty much stumped. Has anyone ever had a situation like this?
My husband suffers from Epilepsy due to a gunshot wound to the back of his head, he started having seizures almost innediately after. He was prescribed Dylantin which was switched to Keppra. His neurologist recently added Trileptal to balance his levels because he was having seizures so often. His therapist also prescribed him Celexal and Elavil for depression medication due to bipolar disorder.
i've had epilepsy since the age of four. i am now fifty four and take 1600mgs tegretol,160mgs phenobarbitol 300mgs effexorxr for depression and 3mgs xanex-xr. i've recently swithched to generic tegretol and feel a bit funny. my memory and reflexes are much poorer and i feel more fatigued.
s common or uncommon but its not rare. Trileptal is similar clinically but better in one way in that the blood test is not required. I found that lithium worked well but had some trouble tolerating it for other reasons that were physical but did very well on Lamictal especially on rapid cycling. Each person reacts diffferently though. Speak to your psychiatrist about what is going on and if other options might be considered.
I take trileptal if you would like to look into that, but that is just my opinion again I am no doctor. Trileptal has minimal side effects. Her doctor will probably know what it is. If the seizures are occuring at night they could be nocturnal seizures.
My three year old has been acting out severely lately. She has began being violent, back talking, she throws toys, && refuses to follow directions. She has also began lying. She knows the difference between reality && fantasy, however she has began lying about EVERYTHING! Even the simplest questions get lies as the answers. For instance I can ask her if she needs to go pee, she will lie && say no. She has never really had a problem with lying before about two months ago.
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My son also used to have nighttime seizures due to frontal lobe epilepsy. When he was on Keppra he was very irritable and his neuro-doc warned me that this was a potential side effect.
How exactly they are related is something just being clinically understood. Bipolar is not related to epilepsy but both (with epilepsy its clearly known) cause an overactivity of certain areas of the brain. If a person has epilepsy since they were a child and requires an anti-convulsant it should be noted that some anti-convulsants are used as mood stabilizers such as Depakoate, Trileptal, Keppra and of course Lamictal (and others) but the dosage and adjustment for bipolar would be different.
I filled out questionnaire after questionnaire, and am still unsure of why my Dr. is telling me what he is telling me. He is saying I have epilepsy. Put me on Trileptal, 150 mg 2 times a day for the first week 300 mg (600 mg pill cut in half) 2 times a day for the second week and 600 mg 2 times a day from then on out. I am about to start the 300 mg 2 times a day (tomorrow). BUT - my problem is - I'm not convinced I have epilepsy.
I have a son that had an EEG at 5 1/2 years old, we where told he had extra activity on the left frontal lobe and he was diagnosed with epilepsy. We had him on different seizure meds and none really ever seemed to help control his movements. We had him do a three day EEG about a mo ago because his head wouldn't stop twitching. The EEG showed no abnormal activity and he was diagnosed with Tourettes because of other tics that have happened in the past.
I have lived withe epilepsy all my life and have partial complex and simple seizures due to tuberous sclerosis on the brain. Is it logical that I am now feeling over fatigued because of being on a fluid restricted intake because of low sodium readings and trileptal. 127 reading. Senior category age wise.
said they were complex partial seizures and she went on dilantin and depakote then keppra and ended with trileptal and now on keppra and trileptal...seizures still are not controlled and she goes through cyles of increased seizures and memory loss and headaches and seizures seem to be getting more frequent and the keppra is terrible...and now they want to try lamitra or zonegran...every mediceine is so disruptive to her and do not control the seizures..
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My daughter is two. She has been labeled developmentally delayed and deals with what our Neurologist calls "Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy" She is on Trileptal for that. She has had surgery for Strabismus (when she was 9 months) and we have to patch her strong eye 4 hours a day. Weekly, she has PT, OT and Speech therapy.
She makes great eye contact, but we can't figure out what she actually understands. At this point, she is making sounds, but nothing seem purposeful.
I started clinic and was prescribed trileptal; which made me sick everytime I withdrew from it and started it back. My doc also told me to start exercising to increase bone density.
The 2nd time it happened, about a year after, and it was worse. It was during theday and I was watching television, it was 3:30pm (That's right, everytime I've had a seizure, I checked the time just before it happens; not strange, as I'm constantly checking the time)...
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