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Allrighty, I'm new to this forum, but I wanted to get my feet wet. I searched for topics on Keppra, but couldn't find the type of information that I wanted, so I decided to create this thread.
I've been taking Keppra for about a year now, at first it was 750 mg every 12 hours, and now its 1500 mg on the Keppra XR, once a day.
Other meds I take
Prevacid: 15-30 mg a day, depending on severity of heartburn
Hydroclorothyazide: 12.5 mg daily for high blood pressure
Nasonex: For allergies
One daily multivitamin
Side effects:
I felt fine on the Keppra for the first coupel months, though I did notice the extra worried feeling. Then, right around September of 08, I had this weird panic attack, worried about everything, including my mortality. It threw me for a loop. Since then, I've been having more and more side effects. Top ones are....
Anxiety, feeling very drowsy, easily angered, feelng doped up, tingling in the tips of my fingers, and also, on my head...which I find very disturbing.
More on that tingling: I have an MRi scheduled for June because I might have a pinched nerve in my lower back. I was wondering if the tingling on my head was Keppra related?
Also, I get headaches quite often (diagnosed with migraines years ago). When I was on depakote, my headaches were almost nonexistent. Then I went on topamax and had a severe allergic reaction, so that led me to Keppra.
One last side effect: In my left eye...sometimes I see a small beam of light, usually when I bend over, or move my eyes in a strange way. Another thing...maybe it is a coincidence, but my head almost always hurts on the left side, my potential pinched nerve in the back is on the left side, and the eye thing is on the left side. Could that be a coincidence? Its driving me nuts.
Perhaps I can get a neurologists opinion. I hope I'm just having another one of those anxiety attacks, and its not something even more serious.
Hope that made sense. Thank you!
I've been taking Keppra for about a year now, at first it was 750 mg every 12 hours, and now its 1500 mg on the Keppra XR, once a day.
Other meds I take
Prevacid: 15-30 mg a day, depending on severity of heartburn
Hydroclorothyazide: 12.5 mg daily for high blood pressure
Nasonex: For allergies
One daily multivitamin
Side effects:
I felt fine on the Keppra for the first coupel months, though I did notice the extra worried feeling. Then, right around September of 08, I had this weird panic attack, worried about everything, including my mortality. It threw me for a loop. Since then, I've been having more and more side effects. Top ones are....
Anxiety, feeling very drowsy, easily angered, feelng doped up, tingling in the tips of my fingers, and also, on my head...which I find very disturbing.
More on that tingling: I have an MRi scheduled for June because I might have a pinched nerve in my lower back. I was wondering if the tingling on my head was Keppra related?
Also, I get headaches quite often (diagnosed with migraines years ago). When I was on depakote, my headaches were almost nonexistent. Then I went on topamax and had a severe allergic reaction, so that led me to Keppra.
One last side effect: In my left eye...sometimes I see a small beam of light, usually when I bend over, or move my eyes in a strange way. Another thing...maybe it is a coincidence, but my head almost always hurts on the left side, my potential pinched nerve in the back is on the left side, and the eye thing is on the left side. Could that be a coincidence? Its driving me nuts.
Perhaps I can get a neurologists opinion. I hope I'm just having another one of those anxiety attacks, and its not something even more serious.
Hope that made sense. Thank you!