Good Morning!

Welcome to the Coping With Epilepsy Forums

Welcome to the Coping With Epilepsy forums - a peer support community for folks dealing (directly or indirectly) with seizure disorders. You can visit the forum page to see the list of forum nodes (categories/rooms) for topics.

Please have a look around and if you like what you see, please consider registering an account and joining the discussions. When you register an account and log in, you may enjoy additional benefits including no ads, access to members only (ie. private) forum nodes and more. Registering an account is free - you have nothing to lose!

M

Maddie38

New
Messages
2
Reaction score
0
Points
0
I have had epilepsy for 32 years. Most of that time on Dilantin. Over the past several years things have just gone down hill and I can not figure it out!
Medications are Dilantin 300 mg, Topamax 450 mg, and the newly added Klonopin 1.5 mg.

The Klonopin was added to help with my speech, it seems as if I am losing the ability to speak and I can't figure it out. The Klonopin is not working still having speech issues and they are so embarrassing. It is almost like the message from my brain to my mouth gets mixed up, quite painful for others to watch.

Any help would be awesome!
Thanks
 
Hello Maddie38 and welcome to the community! I have not had any experience with those drugs, but I am sure someone here has. That is the great thing about this site, there is always a person to help out! I hope that you feel better soon and your speech issues are figured out.
 
Hi Maddie,

The speech issue could be from Topamax. This AED is also known as "Dopemax" and can cause speech/memory problems. Talk to your neurologist.

I take 200 mgs. now along with Keppra, but at one time my neuro had me on a higher dose and I could not remember what I was talking about mid-sentence. It was very frustrating.
 
Thank you

Thank you both for taking the time to reply. I am truly a mess and can not figure it out.
Losing your ability to speak is stressful along with all the other seizures I have. Well my journey continues if speechless it still continues.

Many Thanks,
Maddie
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom