Which AEDs give you the worst side effects?

[sarahj]

ok so i dont get coross ever. at all, im the opposite compleeeeetely...
bu im SO ditzy - hard to concentrate etc... im very intelligent but just like, when it comes to general life, a total idiot!

is anyone else like that??

also i find playing piano hard cuz i get crazy shakes!! its quite a joke amongst my mates and i! (many spilt drinks, wobbly handwriting, that kinda thing!)

[brain]

Well, since Dilantin / Phenytoin (my baby)

is officially on my anti-epileptic drug allergy
list, I had to edit the poll to add mine
to it to which it's wrecked a havoc on
my teeth and gums. I've not been on
it for a long time after being on it for
decades, and it's STILL in my system!

I love my Dilantin! It worked! My pleadings
with my Doctors to tell them I can always
get false teeth and stay with it - lost!

Phooey!

[nana1]

Ok. Dilantian i was on for a while but it was bad on my teeth and gums. My gums got to the point were they were covering every sinlge tooth i had> The denist said they (teeth were going to fall out) so i had to get off that med. Pheno i had been taking since i was born, i finally got me off it when i was in late 40s. every time they tryed to get me off Pheno i would go into heart attack and have seizure. The pheno just was not doing anything for me. That very additive and was just sitting inside me doing nothing. now the 3 meds i am taking are causing headachs every day, but i rather have head aches i
don`t want to be off them and start up with 10 seizure every day. Every body has different side effect for there pills.
nancy

[RobinN]

Every body has different side effect for there pills.
nancy

I am thinking Nancy, perhaps there will be a new way to prescribe these pills in the future. Wouldn't it be nice if doctors might consider also doing neurofeedback therapy, along with a shorter term of medication. It might be possible to have a lower dose, and less time on the meds. If the treatment was done immediately after, let's say the third seizure, then maybe the brain wouldn't "learn" to seize as a "habit".

I am just thinking... hmmmmmm

[hawke86]

Interesting site.

[korisue]

My daughter has been on numerous meds since 3 months old. I hate the Phenobarb - she was listless and don't think it helped much. She is very allergic to the lamictol. She was on topomax for awhile and her weight went down, which she doesn't have extra to loose - plus Topomax will make mush of your teeth if you stay on it to long. She had the shots and I will never allow her to go through that again- she was miserable the entire 3 weeks and they didn't help at all. Zonegran made her fussy and uncomfortable. Currently she is on Depakote and to us and her Dr.'s this has been the best for her. She is little and the Depakote has increased her appitite, which she needed plus tends to lessen the severity of the seizures. She is still alert and happy on this med. But she also had the Vagul Nerve Stimulator put in last December and currently she is 33days seizure free - Seems no drug has been the best drug!

[nana1]

It sounds good Robin....but i don`t trust all doctors at this point.



nancy

[RobinN]

I don't either Nancy.
I don't trust all meds either.

It seems as if... once you step onto the merry go round with a few of these (if not the majority) that you can't get off easy. You are warned of the possibility of increased seizures. So they give you another one in the meantime, so you can get off the first one easier. Is that actually the body being without its medicine, or is it a direct reaction of the med itself. So it appears that it has the "taker" in a strangle hold. Damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

The doctor's (many of them) are just prescribing according to what they are told by the pharmaceutical companies. I want a system where they are paid to keep us well. Not before.

[nana1]

A bout 5 months ago i told my neurologist and my primary i was going to get off all my meds except my seizure meds, as i was not sure what meds where interacting with what drug. So now i am taking lamictal, keppra, zonegran, i also take a pill for migrains ( only when needed, and tynol pm). I do have head achs every day and that is side effect from the 3 meds, sometimes it get bad it goes to migraines. I have always had migrains. I hope i have not been stupid, I did have a seizure april 25th, .



nancy

[Necie]

Good MorningAll
I just had to post on this subject.. I am on Trileptal and Lamectal. My worst side effects are with the Lamectal. I get reallt tired and my vision gets really weird. I feel like I am walking around cross eyed. My family calls it my bad pill. I have to take in the afternoon and before I go to bed. If there is any thing I have to do in the afternoon I dont take it. But I never miss it 2 days in a row.
Necie

[skillefer]

For me, the worst side effects came when I was taking Depakote. My moods were fine, but I gained alot of weight. At one point I was about 190-195 pounds. And that's not good on a 5'3" frame. It was depressing too. I didn't like wearing XXL. But once my doctor took me off the med, I lost most of that weight. Now I'm down to a size 8-10.

[stilldancing_98]

Have you spoken to your Dr. about the eye sight thing? That is one thing you do not want to mess with. Please talk with the Doc. I was on that one and had to be taken off. And I did the the same thing on Depakote with weight.It really has to be monitored right. Because Dep. can work so good if it is given correctly. Teresa

[stilldancing_98]

Have you spoken to your Dr. about the eye sight thing? That is one thing you do not want to mess with. Please talk with the Doc. I was on that one and had to be taken off. And I did the the same thing on Depakote with weight.It really has to be monitored right. Because Dep. can work so good if it is given correctly. Teresa