Do you think It's stupid i take aed's only to get driver license?

[kostareyna]

Personally the seizures aren't even close to bother me, altough i have jme it's only myoclonic fits and i know how to avoid it unless i sit infront of the computer and because im photosensetive it effects me,mostly when i sit infront of the computer i will get doom's feeling and on some occasions a jump of my palm from the mouse but that's about it,in the mornings i would probably jerk and maybe fall on the floor if i wouldn't know how to control it but since the meds never worked except the last one i tried and still using (keppra) i learned how to control,prevent & even stop it after it begins.If i would live in the forest i won't need any aed's and when im in the nature or something i never have a fit not even for a second (it's all about the technology).

The thing is that except the fact that public transportation in israel sucks and you feel like your very dependent, the course i studied and want to advance in relates to the fact you should probebly have driver license so you can be in the right place in the right time.I don't know what else i can study and like i said i want to have a life with no boundaries and with keppra i might be able to achieve that.I hate the side effects and except the tiredness nothing else goes away but its kindda nice to be without the fits and a chance to get the license so that's why i made this decision.

What do you think?

 

[epileric]

I know that feeling. I used to think I could go without my meds and just have seizures since they didn't really bother me as much as some of the side-effects.

What I did learn is that the more seizures one has, the more likely your seizures are to increase in number & intensity. Being much older I can see how that has happened to me.

 

[kostareyna]

I know that feeling. I used to think I could go without my meds and just have seizures since they didn't really bother me as much as some of the side-effects.

What I did learn is that the more seizures one has, the more likely your seizures are to increase in number & intensity. Being much older I can see how that has happened to me.

Well i noticed i had little more problems while being free on meds but i could avoid all the triggers if i wanted to,maybe you right,now for exmaple altough i don't affected by the triggers i feel my left arm isn't working well while on the med but doctors say that's impossible and when i tried to lower the dosage and now doubled it nothing has changed so the meds can worsen or create new triggers as well i guess.

Did you ever hear about someone who won't get his morning jerks of jme if he won't close his eyes?im think im special in that way....

 

[epileric]

Have you been on the keppra for long? I know quite often it just takes a while for side-effects to subside.

You can avoid triggers if you want but be aware that if you keep having seizures you are bound to develop more & more triggers as well.

 

[kostareyna]

Have you been on the keppra for long? I know quite often it just takes a while for side-effects to subside.

You can avoid triggers if you want but be aware that if you keep having seizures you are bound to develop more & more triggers as well.

Im taking it for more than 6 months but i doubled the dosage only 1 month ago,anyway the flue like symptoms which comes and goes in the mornings started after 3 months when i switched form generic to brand and never went away,i don't think its the brand, i got sick than it started.

That's what's upsets me my seizures were always so minor and my stupid nurologist probebly wanted to save money and since here you can't get keppra without failig on couple of drugs he made me take lamictal 4 years which actually made my seizures worse than i went on epiim which din't help and i developed psychological speech problems. any way after 7 years of not being treated right or at all i developed some psychological triggers that aren't going away and its annoying,what is the chance that moving the hand or the foot can be a seizure trigger damn it!!It's Not that annoying but i do get scared so its somehow psychological,the cause doesn't matther just the fact i feel it and its annoying and might turn into a myoclonic fit.

Im still on keppra so i don't avoid my triggers i actually look at flashin lights with my eyes closed to check the resistance and after doubling my dosage i see the keppra works much better!! But what i feel with my hand isn't going away and it started 2 months after i was on keppra and din't sleep good 2 days in a row i wonder if something changed in my brain.

p.s=If i would only get keppra as a first drug my epilepsy would probebly be much weaker even milder than it is now and maybe i wouldn't be photosensetive.

p.s2=I wonder if just as you developed seizure triggers you can reverse the process....