A batch of bad meds????
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RobinN
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I have read articles that it can happen. You might contact the company and ask if others are dealing with this. I know that for my daughter the med itself caused increase in seizures, and odd seizures too.
There is also the site below, I am not sure if this sort of information is listed anywhere.
www.askapatient.com
Can you also consider what is going on with your nutrition? What do you drink on a daily basis? What is your diet like? Sensitivity to ingredients can increase seizures.
There is also the site below, I am not sure if this sort of information is listed anywhere.
www.askapatient.com
Can you also consider what is going on with your nutrition? What do you drink on a daily basis? What is your diet like? Sensitivity to ingredients can increase seizures.
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Are you taking a brand name medication?
Are you taking two meds right now together or just one?
You might talk to the pharmacy and ask them if there is a visible change in the medication and let them know your having troubles. Or you can talk to your doctor too and see if something needs to be changed.
I had my Tegretol XR increased by 100mg and it made my seizures worse which was weird. I take 3000mg Keppra XR and 600mg of Tegretol XR and those have always been the same from the pharmacy etc.
Please be safe,
Crystal
Are you taking two meds right now together or just one?
You might talk to the pharmacy and ask them if there is a visible change in the medication and let them know your having troubles. Or you can talk to your doctor too and see if something needs to be changed.
I had my Tegretol XR increased by 100mg and it made my seizures worse which was weird. I take 3000mg Keppra XR and 600mg of Tegretol XR and those have always been the same from the pharmacy etc.
Please be safe,
Crystal
Here's the
thing. If you're taking the name brand, then YES it would be considered a bad batch.
HOWEVER, If you are taking a generic, it would not necessarily, and here's why:
Generics, although they are made up of the same chemical combination that the name brand drug has, they have between an 80% to 120% potency.
ON TOP OF THAT: Generics, each from different manufacturers, use different fillers to bind the pills/tablets with....and if you get a different one month to month, it does mess up your system. Pharmacies do NOT always get generics from the same manufacturer month in and month out, either. That's another problem to consider.....
Lesson learned? Pay CLOSE ATTENTION to the pills that you take every month. Do they look the same as the last batch, or the batch before that? You get the idea, I think.....
thing. If you're taking the name brand, then YES it would be considered a bad batch.
HOWEVER, If you are taking a generic, it would not necessarily, and here's why:
Generics, although they are made up of the same chemical combination that the name brand drug has, they have between an 80% to 120% potency.
ON TOP OF THAT: Generics, each from different manufacturers, use different fillers to bind the pills/tablets with....and if you get a different one month to month, it does mess up your system. Pharmacies do NOT always get generics from the same manufacturer month in and month out, either. That's another problem to consider.....
Lesson learned? Pay CLOSE ATTENTION to the pills that you take every month. Do they look the same as the last batch, or the batch before that? You get the idea, I think.....
heck, maybe i got a bad batch of lamictal from the pharmacy a while ago (canadian online) and thats why I had bad seizures and breakthroughs.... *fingers crossed.. hope it was..
Had no idea you can get bad batches...
Can you call your Neurologist and let him/her know ? Yeah.. also call the pharamacy if this has never happened before.
Had no idea you can get bad batches...
Can you call your Neurologist and let him/her know ? Yeah.. also call the pharamacy if this has never happened before.
hey
I am currently taking 5000 mg of brand name keppra and 5200 mg of gabbapentin. I have been on gabbapentin since I can remember and have had no problems, thankfully! I have been on brand name keppra for 6 years or so…in the spring time they automatically switched me to generic keppra, and I started having arm twitches a couple of times a week. 4 months later we saw my neurologists and he said the generic keppra was making me have these arm twitches and I switched back to the brand name keppra. About 3 weeks ago I started having breakthrough myoclonic jerks throughout the day. I thought this might be caused by the brand new batch of pills I received from the pharmacy, because these seizures just came outta nowhere!!! I have tried to control them with lorazepam and taking extra keppra but nothing has stopped them. I am having 50+ of these jerks everyday now and I don’t know what to do. I have talked with the pharmacy and UCB pharma, the manufacturer, and I have gotten nowhere! Every batch of the brand name pills has looked the same, but I was grabbing at straws maybe thinking this new batch of pills has something wrong with it, because this is when the problems started.
Thanks for your advice everyone, I’ll hopefully figure this out!
I am currently taking 5000 mg of brand name keppra and 5200 mg of gabbapentin. I have been on gabbapentin since I can remember and have had no problems, thankfully! I have been on brand name keppra for 6 years or so…in the spring time they automatically switched me to generic keppra, and I started having arm twitches a couple of times a week. 4 months later we saw my neurologists and he said the generic keppra was making me have these arm twitches and I switched back to the brand name keppra. About 3 weeks ago I started having breakthrough myoclonic jerks throughout the day. I thought this might be caused by the brand new batch of pills I received from the pharmacy, because these seizures just came outta nowhere!!! I have tried to control them with lorazepam and taking extra keppra but nothing has stopped them. I am having 50+ of these jerks everyday now and I don’t know what to do. I have talked with the pharmacy and UCB pharma, the manufacturer, and I have gotten nowhere! Every batch of the brand name pills has looked the same, but I was grabbing at straws maybe thinking this new batch of pills has something wrong with it, because this is when the problems started.
Thanks for your advice everyone, I’ll hopefully figure this out!
Honestly
I would think that at those doses, you'd be close to the limits of therapeutic doses. If not over. Sorry to be a downer, but that's my guess. I would hazard a guess that you may need to either change meds, or possibly add another.
I would think that at those doses, you'd be close to the limits of therapeutic doses. If not over. Sorry to be a downer, but that's my guess. I would hazard a guess that you may need to either change meds, or possibly add another.