Keppra: Hot Flushes?

[TempusFugit]

Have any of you who have/are taking Keppra suffer with hot flushes?

I'm not sure whether it's just coincidence (especially considering I have been battling a kidney infection for the last couple of weeks), but at 35 - surely I am too young for the menopause

I have tried to find a post/thread with this particular side effect - so if there is one out there, please forgive me (and feel free to merge this post into the correct place).

Your thoughts would be very much appreciated

[epileric]

I often felt hot when on Keppra but I thought it was just that it took so much more effort to move (or do anything for that matter)

[Meetz1064]

for the few weeks that I was on it, I was hot as bejeezers, too. However, I AM old enough to be going through the change, although, still a bit young (45).

A tidbit of knowledge, though: E women do typically go through the change earlier than normal because of the way the anti-epileptic drugs affect our systems....

[TempusFugit]

I often felt hot when on Keppra but I thought it was just that it took so much more effort to move (or do anything for that matter)

lol - I know the tiredness feeling really well - coupled with my recent kidney infection, I don't know what to think now!

for the few weeks that I was on it, I was hot as bejeezers, too. However, I AM old enough to be going through the change, although, still a bit young (45).

A tidbit of knowledge, though: E women do typically go through the change earlier than normal because of the way the anti-epileptic drugs affect our systems....

Wow.. now that is interesting! I never knew that and will look into that more!

I think what I am going to do is just keep an eye on it. It's not a medical emergency or anything, just a feeling (that is very uncomfortable and leaves me [pardon the pun] hot under the collar!!). I will keep a note of them (inside my seizure diary).

I don't want any more children - but I certainly don't feel ready to go through the change just yet!

Thank you both for your responses x

[Cint]

Well,

I did go thru an early menopause, starting the peri-menopause phase with the hot flushes, menstrual problems, etc. in my mid-thirties. At the time, my ob/gyn kept telling me I was too young to be going thru menopause. Well, I may have been too young, but it was happening! In my mid-forties, I had an Endometrial Ablation to stop all the menstrual problems, and no more hot flushes, either.

[Meetz1064]

was the Ablation due to fibroids, or another cause? I am looking at the same possibility now......

[Cint]

Meeetz,

I had the Ablation because my menstrual problems were soooooo out of whack. I would have them start and they would not stop. I was also having 2-3 hot flashes in the night and had to change my nightgown. That's all gone now.

I hope you find the answers..........