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Hi all, Perhaps you may remember me, my husband was diagnosed with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy with generalized seizures in October of 2007, and placed on Dliantin 100mg. 3X a day. (We thought it was dilantin)
Well April 6th he had another seizure while sleeping, and I took him to the ER later that a.m. and his level was 3.3 Now I know for a fact he has been compliant about taking his meds.
Meanwhile, I read an article stating dilantin is much better than its generic conterpart, and I looked it up, and low and behold, my husband was on generic phenytoin. We had it changed this a.m. to actual Dilantin.
We just cannot figure out why his level would be so low, when he was theraputic in January.
And to top it all off, we are snowbirds, and in Florida until May. But the Dr. in the ER here was wonderful, they bolused him with 1000mg. of dilantin, 500mg. by mouth, 500mg. IV He has a script to get another level next week.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Well April 6th he had another seizure while sleeping, and I took him to the ER later that a.m. and his level was 3.3 Now I know for a fact he has been compliant about taking his meds.
Meanwhile, I read an article stating dilantin is much better than its generic conterpart, and I looked it up, and low and behold, my husband was on generic phenytoin. We had it changed this a.m. to actual Dilantin.
We just cannot figure out why his level would be so low, when he was theraputic in January.
And to top it all off, we are snowbirds, and in Florida until May. But the Dr. in the ER here was wonderful, they bolused him with 1000mg. of dilantin, 500mg. by mouth, 500mg. IV He has a script to get another level next week.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,