Hi I am new to this site and have a question regarding medication.
My daughter is 6 years old and was slowly titrated up to 175mg of lamictal in about a year. When she hit 175mg 3x/day her seizures got worse. At the same time her Neurologist began lowering her trileptal dose. After quite a few prolonged seizures and hospitalizations it has been decided to put her back on her original trileptal dose, raise her keppra and take her off lamictal. Her Neurologist is replacing her lamictal with Dilantin. The orders for weaning her off lamictal is as follows 125mg 3x/day for one week
75mg 3x/day for one week
25mg 3x/day for one week
then stop
She started Dilantin today at the lowest dose, no information for going up. She also received her VNS and had it turned on last week, and we increased the setting today.
If anyone has any experience I would greatly appreciate any advice
Thank you very much
My daughter is 6 years old and was slowly titrated up to 175mg of lamictal in about a year. When she hit 175mg 3x/day her seizures got worse. At the same time her Neurologist began lowering her trileptal dose. After quite a few prolonged seizures and hospitalizations it has been decided to put her back on her original trileptal dose, raise her keppra and take her off lamictal. Her Neurologist is replacing her lamictal with Dilantin. The orders for weaning her off lamictal is as follows 125mg 3x/day for one week
75mg 3x/day for one week
25mg 3x/day for one week
then stop
She started Dilantin today at the lowest dose, no information for going up. She also received her VNS and had it turned on last week, and we increased the setting today.
If anyone has any experience I would greatly appreciate any advice
Thank you very much