side effects

Hi - I'm a 40-something Seattle-area professional, originally from the Northeast. I work in Web publishing and related fields. I've had seizures since my early twenties, starting about a year after injuring my head in a car accident. I also have an older half brother who had seizures as a...

My daughter was diagnosed last week with absence seizures and was prescribed Zarontin (ethosuximide) 250mg at night. She is suppose to increase her dose to 500mg next week. However, the side effects she is having on the current dose is horrible. Stomach cramps, not eating, not sleeping...

Hey wonderful people. I thought I could help anyone who is considering Vimpat or is on Vimpat, but having a difficult time. Below are some tips and tricks I've learned on how to manage side effects from this drug. These may not work for everyone, but I did notice a change when I implemented...

I've been on Tegretol for a long while now, and I'm doing a slow switch over to Keppra (over two months), and although I heard great things about Keppra, at least compared to Tegretol, and I don't know if anyone has any recommendations?

I was first diagnosed with simple partial seizures about eight months ago. Since then, my seizures have become more frequent, and have moved to complex partial with secondary generalization. I've tried half a dozen different drugs, plus combinations of different ones, and I've had to gradually...

Hello all, My name is Christine and I was diagnosed with ideopathic E back in 2006 but didn't have a tonic clonic seizure until 2008. Since then I've tried Lamictol, Dilantin and Keppra; the latter is the only medication I've tried that remotely agrees with me! My husband and I are preparing...

Hey! Hope everyone had a good weekend! Wondering - the websites say to call your doctor immediately for body pain, fever etc. (I assume its alluding to 'the rash') but I don't want to call again for no reason and seem paranoid since I don't have a rash, just extreme joint pain (can't sleep...

So I thought I would post here in case others were looking to start Vimpat and wonder what they were getting themselves into. =) Well I gotta say it's working out pretty well. A little cloudy headed. Still feel a bit on the edge of having a seizure. Kind of like, "I feel like I'm going to have...

Hi everyone, I just returned from a visit with my neurologist, who is starting me on Vimpat. I have been on 2000mg of Keppra daily, and have been so sick it has been difficult to function. I did a lot of research on different meds before this visit, and naturally he puts me on a drug I have...

I've recently been moved on to a new medication phenytoin/epanutin and it is making me feel so nauseas, I don't think I've ever felt so sick in my life, has anybody else experienced this? I am also on keppra and zarontin syrup. The nausea is just awful and I've a splitting headache, does it...

So with the new dosage that I m taking are these side effects? I have been feeling like dizzy, and I m like seeing things, not like people but shapes ( shapes are the best way I can explain it, also like different colors), hard to breath and my heart feels like its beating really fast, I feel...

every morning i wake up feeling like i not slept in days and it lasts all day! but i get plenty of sleep about 8 or 9 hours! and constant headache of the right side of head i think its the keppra doing it and its bugging the hell out of me! i guess being on 2 meds which both have tired as side...

I was diagnosed with Benign Rolandic Epilepsy when I was seven. Luckily it's supposed to wear away through puberty. I was put on Tegretol, but it caused me to stutter, so I was put on Trileptol. Three years ago I was put on Keprra as well, because Trileptol was no longer effective. I have had no...

All, I'm new to this forum because I never actually thought I had epilepsy. My neurologist has been trying medication to treat migraines which, surprise surprise, are treated with the same meds. But I read a story on this forum and it sounded so much like what I've been dealing with that I...

To anyone who cares to listen. So, been on Keppra for 5 months or so now and just the other day I started developing a rash on the left side of my neck as well as on and behind my left ear. Went to the Doctors office today and she confirmed my suspicions about what I had... Shingles. First of...

i have been on three different medications now, and on all of them i have had extreme side effects. havent taken any meds in over 6 months now and usually i would have at least a few seizures a week but havent had any in over a month, which is a record! just wondering if anyone else has also...

I have been diagnosed with frontal nuptial epilepsy. I have been having seizures at night where i would hit the bed (or the people in bed with me, yes it's very troubling for the girlfriend as you can imagine), and grunting, and talking very angrily while it happens, although i'm still asleep...

Hi, I am 43, and have been on treatment for epilepsy since I was 8. I've been seizure free for about 9 years now, but have been told by the doctors that I cannot think of withdrawing my medication. I feel that the long term medication is beginning to tell on me by way of certain side effects...

Post here what side effects you are getting with tegretol xr whoever is on them would be nice for some input because im trying to see on the net side effects people have and most people seem to be fine.... but i feel sooooooo bad on them.... been on them 6 years now and they have always made me...

Dilantin (Phenytoin) can be considered the grandfather of all epilepsy medications. Although it was invented in 1908 as a chemical that could prevent convulsions during electroshock treatment, its popularity grew quickly, and as early as 1940, it was hailed as initiating a whole new epoch of...