25mg increase per week is acceptable to let your body get used to it to avoid confusion or anxiety. I started to feel pain relief of my nerve pain once I hit that dose. I have nerve dysfunction in my spine and I have a numb left foot. It began helping me once I reached that level.
The important thing to remember though, is medication management is highly individualized. What works for one person, may not work for another.
even though the leaflet that comes with keppra now states it can cause muscle pain joint pain and paresthesia. she was still talking as if it was unlikely that kepra was causing my problems which is stupid. as i have had loads of nerve conduction tests and other tests that have proved there is nothing else causing the pain and pins and needles in my hands/lower arms
when i said i was vitamin d deficient and i thought keppra had caused it.
I did get a big relief from Tegretol which is one of the first anti-seizure meds for nerve pain that they give for TN. Lyrica did not work too well plus I hated weight gain. I have also tried Keppra, and now on Lamictal which reduces spasms but does not go away. I feel your pain and hope they can find something more helpful .
We tried the Beta Blockers, the triptans, Amitriptaline, Antidepressants, Bio Feedback, Nerve Blocks, Cryogenic Therapy , celebrex, and the narcotics. Then I did the Chiari decompression, the laminectomy and a Occipital Neurectomy on the left and right. For two years I was pretty pain free, then for two more I was starting to get a bad migraine one to two a year, still pretty great.
Then 2008.
She has prescribed Lyrica for me for some of the nerve pain. Has anyone else tried this? Has it worked for you? I have been losing my peripheral vision on and off, and it is almost impossible for me to move my head without excruciating pain. I had an LP performed quite recently and as a result, I have a CSF leak. Can LP's make chiari symptoms worse? I read that on a web-site and didn't know whether to dismiss it or not.
t spaced out, but I have been in a lot of pain. Whenever I open my mouth I feel a sharp pain in the right side of my head and jaw, I have severe headaches now, I get extremely dizzy, I feel so weak every day, I get menstrual cramps but I'm not menstruating. I guess my question is Keppra a good medicine to be taking? Is there anything else out there for these "spacing out" episodes? If I have only had one seizure should I really have to take three medicines?
TL;DR: I think Keppra makes me dehydrated because alcohol makes me feel super-dehydrated even if I follow the 2:1 water:alcohol ratio, and because I seem to have a hard time staying hydrated in general. But I'm seeing little if any literature to support dehydration as a Keppra side effect. Does anyone else have any ideas?
TL;DR: I think Keppra makes me dehydrated because alcohol makes me feel super-dehydrated even if I follow the 2:1 water:alcohol ratio, and because I seem to have a hard time staying hydrated in general. But I'm seeing little if any literature to support dehydration as a Keppra side effect. Does anyone else have any ideas?
Isn't this the gommunity due to neuropathy pain from keppra?
Just looking to see if anyone has any weird syndromes or something similar, still have severe neck pain located on top of shoulder near her neck, when this pain is severe seems to drive many of the other conditions. Currently taking Keppra, today had a mild seizure if that is what this is while on medicine, we still feel somehow tied into her neck pain.
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!
No matter how small or large the amount. 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.
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.
Hello I have been taking Keppra for migraines. It doesn't seem to be helping much and I don't want to put up with the side effects. In my research I see that people take it mainly for seizures and taper off of it very slowly due to the risk of their seizures returning. My question is since I don't have seizures and was taking it for migraines is there any need to taper? Thanks for any info!
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