keppra

Hey everyone, just a little bit about me..my name is Natalie I'm currently 21 and was diagnosed with epilepsy in November 2013. It all started when I went out for a friends birthday on 22nd September 2012, I'm not a big drinker so only had a few glasses of rose when I started to feel really...

My daughter is 5 months old (born Dec 2013) and was just diagnosed with epilepsy after having 21 tonic clonic seizures in 3 days and spending 8 days in the PICU at a SF children's hospital. This is all very scary and I'm trying to navigate it all as best I can and learn as much as possible to be...

Thanks for allowing me to share in this site. My husband (27yrs) was diagnosed to have seizure 4years ago. He has been taking Keppra1000 on daily basis since then. But the problem is he suffers from constant and enless tireness, indifference and is always sleepy. He also has low sex drive which...

Hello, I hope Bernard will allow me to post this new thread. I still don't have my email problem fixed with Comcast but I hope to get to that sometime this week. As you may know, I've been asking for guidance here concerning my developmentally disabled adult son who suffered from 2 tonic...

Hello, my son began Keppra on March 18th and is on 1000 mg a day. He also takes 500 mg of Dilantin a day and has for almost 2 years. (The neuro added Keppra when 2 tonic clonics broke through almost 2 weeks ago.) He's had partials almost every day for the past 9 days, which is new for him...

Hi, it's comforting to be here. I have a 27 yr. old, developmentally delayed son who was diagnosed with epilepsy 23 months ago. He was on 400 mg of dilantin (phenytoin) per day and appeared to be seizure free until March 10, 2014. That day, he had 2 tonic clonics and has had 5 partials in the...

Been diagnosed since 16 with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. Had my first seizure in my sleep at 12 yrs old during a bad dream about a husky dog coming at me. Scary for a 12 yr old believe me :( so finally at 16 after my 4th seizure I was diagnosed with epilepsy. They gave me depakote and wow over...

I'm looking for advice. I had been taking Keppra for about 8 years. The last couple years, I started to have strange feelings, which last year became often and even more strange. Towards the end of the year I found that they were "Partial Seizures" even though at the time I hadn't even known...

I believe that when I started taking Keppra a number years ago that I lost some mental focus, and stopped caring about doing certain things correctly. When I was on Tegretol alone I had great mental focus, intense concentration, attention to detail, and was a perfectionist to a fault. I seem...

I had 2 seizures in high school. At the time (1987) there was no guarantee that I even had a seizure, only that those people who saw me "pass out" insisted that I must have had a seizure. EEG, CT Scans, MRIs, etc. showed nothing. I remember being put on 300 mg of dilantin for 2 years. After 1...

Hello. My name is Hannah and I'm an eplieptic. I was diagnosed with TLE when I was five and I imagine I've had every kind of seizure there is at least once. I've been off and on different medications almost the whole time since my diagnosis, but luckily, a few years ago, my neurologist started...

Prior to January 24, 2013 I had never had a seizure. There was some history of a few cousins and a great grandma having a few and being medicated, however I never imagined it would happen to me. I was nineteen years old, never been sick with anything, and invincible. On that lovely Thursday...

My husband has had his seizures under control since we moved in together 18 years ago, so I've had little need for help. He's got a seizure disorder from forceps damage to the brain stem, not epilepsy. He is a disaster right now and I could use some advice. His last episode was when our oldest...

Good morning! I have done a little bit of posting here in this wonderful forum, and learned a lot, but never gotten around to introducing myself. So here goes! My 15-year old daughter suffered her first known seizures about 6 weeks ago. She had 3 t-c seizures - the first one by herself in her...

I have been on dilantin for grand mal seizures in upwards of 30 years. been very fortunate all these years that my seizures were very well controlled with Dilantin, and whenever they did occur, were only during sleep. So as life is grand I was thrown a loop and had a grand mal seizure a week ago...

Hey everyone, This is the first online support site I have joined for my epilepsy and I've had a diagnosis for over ten years! Talk about behind in the times LOL, I stumbled upon some of the forums through Google and though this is a great way to talk to others with similar life struggles. I...

Does anyone have any experience with Keppra and SSRIs? I am on 500 mg of Keppra twice a day, as well as 100 mg of Zoloft once a day. Since starting Zoloft, I don't seem to have good control-I'm a lot more likely to twitch/jerk. I have JME, so luckily, that is the extent of my seizures, thus far...

Hello everyone, it's nice to found this forum. I have read some of the postings & I get quite a lot new information about epilepsy, but I still need your opinion about my situation my story begin in 9 may 2012. I have my first attack, I lost consciousness for 3 minutes , I just think I’m stress...

I have focal seizures. I've been on lamictal, Keppra and now trileptal. Lamictal worked but I had a few break through auras, would drop things all the time and couldn't remember words or they would come out wrong. I also had no memory. It gave me horrible acne. I tried every medication the...

So i saw my consultant today and we spoke for well over an hour ...he is going to reduce my epilim as he thinks its the cause of my extreme shakiness ... They are still thinking its both epileptic and non epileptic seizures so they are going to increase the keppra to 750mg twice a day Im...