Keppra and concentration

Matthew74

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I've been off Keppra for a month or two. I was only on 375mgs a day. My clarinet playing has improved markedly.

Over the fall, when I had better seizure control than now because of the Ketogenic diet, I was a disaster. I couldn't focus, got distracted, and had no musical imagination. Everything was so scattered.

Now I'm remembering how I used to play. I more focused, practice better, improve more quickly, and hear what I'm doing better. I'm more imaginative too. More musical. I can actually concentrate. Thanks be to God!
 

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Was the Keppra was messing with your sleep? When the quality of your sleep goes downhill, everything else tends to decline as well.

BTW, I played clarinet when I was younger. I still have my now-"vintage" Buffet. :)
 

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Was the Keppra was messing with your sleep? When the quality of your sleep goes downhill, everything else tends to decline as well.

BTW, I played clarinet when I was younger. I still have my now-"vintage" Buffet. :)

Cool.

I don't think it was due to sleep. I was certainly fatigued, going to school. I know that does affect me, but I'm sure it was the meds. I was just scatterbrained and AD. I posted one time about a year ago about Tegretol, and how I could be super focused and perfectionist to a fault when I was taking it alone. When I was on Keppra as well I didn't care anymore, I was like "I'm done." It became a problem when I was in the Band Instrument Repair course. I was able to do the work, but didn't really have the patience. I had to force myself to get things right. You have to be self-motivated to get it right. In the past I often had to force myself to get on with other things because I was obsessing. When I was practicing my clarinet I could not focus and half the time didn't even know what I was doing. I would try to improvise and sounded like a bad mocking bird, all these unrelated fragments. I worked on the same written music over and over, but never "got" what the music was doing. It was just a bunch of notes.
 
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