Managing Keppra / lamotrigine mix

[Studiosixty]

Hello all,

just come back from an appointment with my neurologist.

I've been on 300mg of lamotrigine but in the last three months siezures have been breaking through much more regularly so he's said to start taking Keppra as well.

I've read some of the posts about keppra and they seem pretty scary, but fingers crossed the side effects will be minimal.

My question is this, does anyone who's experienced this combination have any thoughts on how to manage it to keep side effects down.

The lamotrigine made me very tired by otherwise fine.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated

:-)

[epileric]

I've never been on lamotrigine but I know for keppra a lot of people use vitamine B6 to counter its side effects.

Meanwhile you might want to do a search at the top of the page for "lamotrigine Side-effects" or just "lamotrigine" and see what you get.

[chaosdemon]

I'm on 25mg twice a day of lamotrigine ramping up to 100mg day, and 500mg twice a day of keppra, admitedly I'm coming off keppra because I was one of the freaky million to one who's liver didn't like it.

I find that I am slightly more tired since starting the lamotrigine, but other than that I've found no difference.

On keppra when the dose went up I got extremely tired for a few days til I got used to it. I take B vitamin complex which has helped with the 'attila the hun' moments.

Also I had bad guts when the keppra dose went up until I got used to them, but everyone is different!

Hope that helps some