Your body may be building an immunity to your medication, while "teaching" the other parts of your brain. Your best bet is to make an appointment w/ your neurologist. When first put on Keppra I was seizure-free for approx. 3 yrs before the seizures gradually came back. I've had auras & complex partials all of my life but at an older age I statred having grand mals as well. In regards to video games and computers it all depends on what triggers the seizures.
How much Keppra do you take, and how long did it take before you seizures completely stopped?
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MY DAUGHTER HAS COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURES AND FOR 7 YEARS HAD BEEN ON DEPAKOTE XR...HAD BEEN SEIZURE FREE FOR 3 YEARS...THE DR WEANED HER OFF, 4 MONTHS LATER SHE SEIZED...NOW IS TAKING KEPPRA XR FOR THE PAST 5 MONTHS...THE FIRST MONTH ON KEPPRA, YOU COULD NOT LIVE WITH HER, SHE IS ONLY 15, I TRIED TO IGNORE THE WAYS SHE ACTED, BECAUSE I KNEW IT WAS THE KEPPRA MAKING HER MEAN, SHE HIT ME AND HER BROTHER, YOU COULDN'T TALK TO HER.
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.
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..
same thing here I was on 3000 mg of keppra/day and kept haveing 25-30 partial seizures a month and every 3 months I would have a short term memory loss, I would feel funny then confused i would ask my wife questions and we would realize i could not remember anything short term like the entire morning or previous evening.
I started out a two years ago with having tonic clonic like seizures. I went to a neurologist who tried me on Keppra which worked but I had a bad reaction to it so he took me off of it. Then he tried Dilantin which I was on for a week, but he took me off of it after having one seizure. He did a long term video eeg, but I had no seizures. My eeg was normal so he diagnosed me with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures.
There are a wide variety of seizures. The Keppra obviously is not working. Speak to the neurologist about other choices. Has she taken any other medications in the past? What? Autism alone does not cause seizures and this is not from autism but seizures can be associated with autism which is a developmental disability that affects people in a variety of ways. There are many other anti-seizure medications but only her neurologist can advise you which would be the right one for her.
I'm 39 yr old female. Recently had 1st tonic-clonic seizure. I have had migraines for years w/previous "clear" MRI done. MRI Summary of findings after seizure:
"Cluster of small left choroidal fissure cysts which demonstrate slight mass effect with flattening of the superior margin of the hippocampal body. Suggestion of small amount of gliosis of the superiorly adjacent parenchyma.
Carbamazepine (Tegretol) is an effective and often a preferred anti-epileptic drug for complex partial seizures. But since she has generalization of the seizures, Valproate may also be a good option. I would try Tegretol first and then Valproate.
Do you see any effect of these seizures on her academic performance?
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.
I'm a 32 year old male and I've been suffering from grand mal and partial complex seizures for almost 20 years. I take Keppra and Lamictal, and thought I don't have any problems getting and keeping an erection, I find it almost impossible to ejaculate when I'm with my partner. Even when I masturbate, it takes a lot of time and concentration to achieve orgasm.
The doctor said alot of kids have seizures for unknow reasons and they usally outgrow it as they get older. Now that we have a new doctor he says my son has complex partial seizures that start in his frontal lobe. He said its hard to say he will outgrow it becuase when you have seizures that usually start in one area you usually have them through your life. Is that true??! Or does he not just want to give me false hope?? Does my son at least have a chance to outgrow it???
I hate to say but that is very common. I have complex partial seizures and my seizures change. When I was younger it wasn't that uncommon for me to have a couple a day. It has taken me forever to get them controlled. I still have seizures but I can go a month without seizures at times but they still pop up every now and then.They are not as profound. I have been on a lot of meds and it took many years to get the seizures somewhat controlled.
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I wish to have kids in a near future, currently I am taking Keppra (3,000 mg a day), it has completly control my seizures and I feel fortunately for this. However, I will like to know if this is a safe medicine to get pregnant with. I know it is still consider as new medicine for epilepsy, and there might be risks for birth defects. I just want to make sure if there has been new research about this medicine and pregnancy, I will like my future children to be healthy.
Greetings. I was just diagnosed with Complex Partial Seizures today based on the results of a sleep-deprived EEG that showed abnormalities in the temporal lobe. I have a wonderful neurologist who answered many of my questions, but I was so stunned and taken aback by the news - the possibility of epilepsy had never entered my mind - that I did not ask the right questions. (We had initially thought I had ADD.
My situation/story is going to make me sound insane, but I would appreciate some opinions on it. For the past 5-6 years, I have had these "episodes", where I will have a flash-back of sorts, of a dream that I had, whether it had been from last night, or 5 years ago. The dream is not negative, or worrysome, it can be as simple as sitting at a desk, or seeing someones face. I will start to get this gradual, and eventually overwhelming feeling, which is so hard for me to discribe.
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