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:bigmouth:Name: Michele. Given Dilantin 100mg 4x day. Taken it for one year. In all that time, neuro never ONCE mentioned getting a blood draw to check levels; never once told me to check my blood sugar, which Dilantin messes with; never once mentioned gum rot or tooth rot at the gum level: now I have to have 5 teeth pulled? PULLED? Never mentioned bone density, so those two years of giving myself daily injections of Forteo are just plain history. No bone growth. No mention of: memory loss; hand trembling; loss of concentration---I cannot even compose a text message without re-reading what I just entered. These men and women stopped our seizures (in my case) but in doing so, Dilantin lost our lives. My skin has become so dry I am considering whether I am having second menopause. I take Premarin 1.25 and have taken it since a hysto, thinking my skin would stay as beautiful as all get out although I braved getting beast cancer, heart disease and the whole magilla that Premarin warns about. The doc who gave me Premarin at hysto time at least had the decency to tell of those "maybe" side effects. Now my skin looks like my grandmother's did, and my knees ache and my ankles ache, and I take calcium, Vitamin D, BUT NOT FOLATE. No cream (and I've invested in a boatload of them--can help my hands and forearms--not to mention my face!)