What side effects do you get from Vimpat?

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The only one I can think of off the list of common side effects is clumsiness sometimes.
 
I'm up to 150 mg twice a day, and since starting the most recent 50 mg dose increase a week ago the only side effect I've noticed is feeling like I'm on the verge of going into double vision for about 45 min. about an hour after I take the morning dose. After that I'm fine.
 
I'm on 100 in the morning and 200 at night. I start to get auras around 3 or 4 in the afternoon and put a call into my doc to see about uping the morning dose. I also get a spinning feeling at 4 in the morning, kinda like a super bad hangover, I get it when I'm sleeping and sometimes it lasts even a couple minutes after I wake up. Anyone else experience this>
 
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The nightmares at the start were bad, very bad and the headaches although after the second week the headaches got less, I had the thing with the vision as well so now I am on zebinix and I am not sure in a way if my eye sight is damaged still from the vimpat or its the new drug. After upping it the shortness of breath and heart palpitations started.
 
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