Keppra vs dilantin for seizures
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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 have been on dilantin for over 25 years . i to have very bad mood swings and i just cant take any stress at all . my neuro is taking me off dilantin slowly. i take 400mg daily . my neuro told me dilantin will cause mood swings and cause me to be irritable and was hard on your body after being on them so long. i have started keppra and dropping 1 dilantin a month . i was told my moods will improve and i will start to think more clearly.
she was also on keppra for about a month but it was useless. now as of today. she takes dilantin, valproic acid capsuls, vimpat, and dilantin. it seems to be working ok, the seizures have slowed down somewhat but she has also been diagnosed with stress related seizures as well as the gran mahl seizures. the vimpat since she has been taking it with the other two has slowed them down although she still has one when she gets severly stressed or over excited.
My husband was recently diagosed with glioblastoma multiforme brain cancer. The neurosurgeon put him on Dilantin "for life." He isn't even going to check blood levels. My husband has not had any seizures. Does this seem appropriate?
Hi, I am 31 yr old female and been on Dilantin for 15 years for JME have myoclonic jerks 2grandmals and possibly partial seizures. Recently I have had a lot of issues. Bad headaches, twitching in my arm, brain fog, cant remember things, Completely exhausted to the point of I cant make it through the day without falling asleep. and at night waking up in places I did not fall asleep in not knowing how I got there.
I'm a 48 yr old black female who began having seizures 7-8 yrs ago. they have increased to about 1 time a week. I'm taking 750 mg of Keppra and Dilantin 100mg 2 x a day.
IT SOUNDS VERY POSSIBLE, i SUFFERED with seizures for 20 years every med on the market did not help, Topomax did very little IF anything for me...Keppra with a small dose of dilantin controlled them best....I just had 2 crainiotomies at Mt Sinai to fix the issue very entailed operation something you want as a LAST resort only......See about Vimpat along with the Keppra it is a good drug...issue with dilantin is the long term side effects....causes teeth problems GI issues and a list of others...
Other drugs such as Keppra are more forgiving but its not for all types of seizures. Depakote can be a replacement for Dilantin for some as can Zonegran. Neurologists can only guess on what drug will work and its up to you to give him/her good feedback. When I was going to grammar school and high school I was taking Dilantin and phenobarbital and most days I was not totally myself. It was hard to sit in class and not sleep.
Hi my Jake is a 18 month old border collie mix who started having seizures about three months ago. The first seizure was followed by another one two months later. The vet did blood work and diagnosed him with idiopathic epilepsy. She put him on 500 mg of keppra ER twice a day. He had a seizure every two weeks for the next month. When we went back to the vet she put him on 64.8 mg twice a day phenobarbital as well as adding another 500 mg keppra to what he was taking.
its been 8 months since my mothers TBI- she had a seizure yesterday-she has been off keppra for 1 1/2 months-the side effects of keppra are aweful-they ask her questions and wonder why she is out of it and doesn't know her last name-(after they gave her keppra in the hospital) what can she take that is less evasive to her health and recovery??
The neurologist figured the Topamax just was not working and then put him on Keppra. (He was still taking 1 dilantin and weaned off that dilantin just before going on Keppra) I had him wean off the Topamax really slow, much slower than the neurologist wanted at first but neuro. gave us his ok to wean off slow. He also weaned on Keppra at a slow dosage. The Keppra worked ok and then he had a few other seizures, one he actually ended up w/ a compression fracture in his back.
side effects of Keppra seem to contradict what our goals for mom are....memory loss, mood changes, mental changes and vision changes among others.
Is Keppra safe to use for this (it is not being used with any other seizure medication....just by itself)?
We want to wean her off, but the doctor is wanting to keep her on it.
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.
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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I have multiple seizures every time I try to fall asleep. My Dr. also said that I wasn't having seizures and withdrew the keppra I was taking for seizure activity. While taking keppra I finally went 3 days without a seizure , but they started up again now that I am off. It really ***** and is often painful. My Dr. told me that I am having seizures but are non-epileptic and referred me to a psychologist.
Hey guys I have had seizures for about a year now. I have only had about 3 so far but I did have my license taken away and I have been seizure free for over 3 1/2 months now and I'm soon to get my license back in a few months, I'm happy they did take it away because I did not feel right or safe to drive with only having 3 full blown out episodes in a year.
Is there a test of some sort that I could have done to see if I am allergic to dilantin. I have not had any seizures in many years.this may sound silly but my dilantin has become my security blanket. I am so afraid of having anything happen in front of my 4 children. I would also like to know if changing medications how safe is it, meaning do I stand a high chance of no seizure happening if I were put on another medication?
After the second and third seizure they gave me a loading dose of Dilantin, Ativan to calm my seizures. Vancomycin for possible infection. Gave my to much Vancomycin and I had red man syndrome. Which then they had to give my Benadryl. Completely wiped me out and I was asleep for 3 days. I had the usual run of tests all with normal results. Ruled out infection and illness as the cause of my seizures.
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