Please inform his neurologist and therapist regarding this. A different medication can be tried and dose of other medications adjusted. Take care!
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.
Also, what is the LOWEST dosage that can be effective of Keppra. She is very sensitive to all medications, and takes half of most over-the-counter medications (one regualr apirin for a headache does the trick, for example).
are you taking any other tablets for the seizures ? i have always been told keppra works best as a add on to other medications.
it sounds like your gp is doing the right thing. the tests should rule out anything else. then if there are on other problems picked up you can try changing your meds
2000mg sounds like a realy high dose to me I'm only taking 500mg of kepra and 250mg of lomtrogine a day. might be worth trying to lower the dose and try another med with it.
Hi,
Lamotrigine or Lamictal as well as Sodium Valproate or Epilim are also effctive against both grand mal and petit mal seizures. However, if you want to switch to other medications, you should discuss this with your doctor. Do not start using a new medication without telling your doctor since this depends on each individual.
Take care and keep us posted.
Just recently I had a new diagnosis of Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy and was put on Folic Acid and Keppra. So now I'm taking three medications. I have only had one grand mal seizure, but every day my mind does this thing where it kind of blanks out when I'm talking and I stare for a couple of seconds, that's when I took an EEG and it determined I had JME. But since I have been on Keppra my mind hasn't spaced out, but I have been in a lot of pain.
I too have had seizures, however, they leave me exhausted for only a few hours. The doctors put me on seizure Keppra meds 500 mg 2x a day and now I am on 1500 mg 2 x a day....which is working great! Now 75 days seizure free, The 500 mg Keppra didn't work.... I have to take the 1500 2x a day exactly twelve hours apart to avoid seizure activity. Good luck.....
My name is Joy and in 2000 I had a very large frontaltemporal meningioma removed by surgery I was lucky that I had a lot of medical training was an emt for 12 years and I recognized I was seriously ill and thought it was a brain tumor long story short I had a dr who kept telling me it was only job stress. At the time I was working at a medium security mens prison. Not stressful for me at all its just how you deal with life. Being a take c harge person I fired the quack dr.
My husband was initially on dilatin for seizure control. This is a dirty drug. Based on our and other brain tumor survivors consensus, we like Keppra the best for seizure control. Another anti-epileptic drug is Tegretol.
Ask your doc about adding Keppra or Tegretol and weaning off of Dilatin. Another reason he may have put your husband indefinetly on Dilatin is because it is available via IV.
8 mg twice a day phenobarbital as well as adding another 500 mg keppra to what he was taking. He has been very drowsy and started stumbling and falling into walls. He is also dragging his back feet like he's not picking up his feet. I'm very worried about my baby. Has anyone else had this experience?
I talked to the vet and am going back to just 500mg of keppra with the phenobarbital twice daily. Any advice would be much appreciated.
We approached the neurosurgeon with a list of questions and he responded with he has other patients to see and we should see a neurologist. We are now in the process of trying to find a neurologist that will take her case since they all seem to specialize in certain conditions (ie. MS, parkinsons etc.) It has now been over 40 days since her discharge from the hospital, and the keppra is not allowing mother to lead a normal life. The pace maker is out. She does not want one at all.
he needs to get tests..........the only thing I say is please don't put him on diliantin. 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 spinal myoclonus, there are many medications out there that can help. Clonazepam and Keppra are two I have tried, clonazepam helped me but I needed to increase dose. Keppra made me ill but everyone has different side effects. I am seeing neurologist soon to re-assess meds.
Does your friend have a neurologist? I suggest that she gets an appointment for tests to find the cause of her myoclonus as there are many different types and causes.
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.
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