Vivid dreams

[Marina's mum]

My daughter, Marina, has recently started having really vivid dreams, usually followed by partial seizures in the morning. She is taking Tegetol, Clonazapam and Keppra. She has been taking Omega 3 fish oil capsules, various B vitamins and calcium for about a month now to see if this reduces the seizures.

We're trying to reduce her anti-epileptic drugs as the side-effects are turning her into a zombie. She's tired all the time, can't concentrate or think straight, and is becoming depressed. We have managed to reduce her Keppra to 750mgs a day, instead of 1500 with little change in the frequency of her seizures, although these vivid dreams have started to happen.

Can somebody out there please let us know if our present regime can cause vivid dreams, and does anybody have any opinions about what we are doing?

Thanks - Dee

[Bernard]

My wife had super vivid dreams when she was taking 5-HTP.

I personally tend to have really vivid dreams if I eat spicy peppers/food at dinner.

If you are doing things by trial and error, I'd recommend you keep a diary/journal/record of what you are doing and how it affects her. Sometimes, you can only notice patterns over time when you can see it laid out on paper.

Has she ever had her calcium/potassium/magnesium levels checked? Taking too much calcium can interfere with some anti-epileptic drugs IIRC.