According to US FDA, keppra is a category C drug which means caution needs to be exercised but benefits may outweigh the potential risks. There are no published reports of pregnancy outcomes in keppra treated women. The risk of defects is higher in women taking more than one anti epileptic drug and with women who have family history of birth defects. Folic acid supplementation at least 400 mcg to help prevent neural tube defects with keppra use is advocated though not proven.
Whenever you start a drug like Keppra or Lamictal, there is an acclimation period during which you are more likely to have side effects. After I got through that period (which was only a week or two), I started noticing other benefits. One of Lamictal's other uses is for mood disorders. Though I never considered myself to be particularly depressed, I have felt so much better since starting Lamictal.
I was on epilim and switched to keppra which has no ill effect on me or baby. Thank god during pregnancy I have been great but they then to monitor me more first week after birth as risk of seizures can go up. I am for 29 week scan today with joint epilespy clinic for pregnant woman to see consultant today for check up. Hopefully all good.
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.
once a year my neurologist makes him have a sleep deprived eeg that has been coming abnormal so he has asked us to continue the medication. this year he ahs suddeny asked us to chnage to keppra. 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 also take Keppra but have never had any problems at all. 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!
I have no health insurance. I was finally got a really basic coverage, but it doesn't cover keppra. i've been taking keppra for a 2 months. I was switched to phenobarbitol for when I run out. since keppra is not on the charity's formulary.
I hope to God that I cant find some source of keppra before I run out. The phenobarb is scary.
So I'm excited about the links here:
http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums/index.php
http://www.needymeds.
I am currently taking keppra 5000 mg vimpat 400 mg a day as well as having the VNS implant in my chest at a very high setting nothing seems to be helping is any one else having the same kind of problems? Or complications while they are pregnant or became pregnant?
I wouldnt think so. I have a seizure disorder and went through may a battle of meds throughout this prgnancy. A lot of seizure meds are class c/d drugs, but my neuro said it isnt the conception / viable pregnancy issue that is the worry, it's if YOU are on the meds during the developemant of the embryo/ fetus for a lot of the meds. some meds do interfere w/ conception, but if that isnt the issue I would talk to your Dr about testing if it is a recurrent problem.
my heart is with you,btw.
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.
But then, according to the PA at his office, none of my symptoms which started after starting keppra are side effects of the keppra. I wish I knew how to wean myself off. I hear its dangerous to do it without knowing how. And, to be honest, after having 3 seizures in the last three months (more than I had in the previous 5 years combined.....I am a bit paranoid about being off of any drug. Good luck with your son and the surgery. I am thinking about you.
As my DD is in Keppra, and has previously been on other seizure meds, the Keppra, by far has had the least amount of side-effects. You could ask if some of her mood changes, memory loss, etc. are from the stroke vs. the Keppra. Please do not wean her off the medication without a Dr's directive... that could cause withdrawal seizures.
My thoughts are with you that your mother gets well soon.
Did you start it after or before keppra? How long were you on Keppra? I wish my daughter could take Lamictal but her rash got the doctor worried, even though it was ringworm. Have you heard of any other anti-seizure meds that might actually work well for moods? I know Lamictal is a very good mood stabilizer. Good luck.
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.
Is there anyone else that has an Infant on Keppra? Have they experienced the same symtoms? Do they go away?
Is there anyone that had an infant that outgrew these kind of seizures?
04/12 changed him to Dilatan and keppra more seizures. 05/12 put back on keppra only 3,500 mg. 06/12 seizures moved to keppra 4,000 mg a day! He has had only 1 seizures since been on 4,000, but this is a very high dosage. He is going to see an seizures specialist. Hoping he can get this dosage down.
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.
Hi, First time poster on this forum. Hopefully someone can help!
Basically I'm suffering from Seizures and they're becoming more frequent. I am on 1,000mg of Keppra twice a day 12 hours apart (Morning & Night)
I have lost count of how many I have had but my first one was around 4 years ago now and was believed to be cause by severe dehydration working physically in 40-45+c Degree heat with not enough fluids to drink.
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