Hi,
I really need your help I keep vomiting since I've been on keppra and have nearly lost a stone of weight I'm nearly down to 7st (thats like going from 112pounds down to almost 100 pounds) Im tiny now :-( its starting to depress me
So I'm on 1000mg of Keppra, 500mg at 8am in the morning and again at 8pm at night since the start of last November.
Aside the very first week I started up till Christmas I had no major side effects, that was 5weeks where I noticed nothing.
But it all changed since Christmas as I have been getting sick. For the last 5weeks in particular either on Wednesday or Thursday, always those exact days, I go to bed around 11pm with bad tummy cramps. I wake up a few hrs later feeling nauseous which lasts about an hr till I end up having to vomit all my dinner out.
(it has also happened on two other occasions at weekends due to very little drinking..but that's another story)
For the following day I feel sick and unable to eat much. Its really bugging me. I have had to miss college as well as working at a creche three times because I felt so bad the day after getting sick.
I went to the doctor the other week and did a urine test that had some blood in it suggesting a kidney infection. She sent it away to the lab to make sure as I'm on the keppra. Well it came back inconclusive so I did a second test and that one then came back clear as in there was no blood that time..and NO i am NOT pregnant either.
The doc and I have no idea whats up and Im gonna see my epilepsy specialist, the guy who put me on keppra, in about a month(the waiting list is HUGE).
Anyone at all experienced something like this?? I cant find answers anywhere
I really need your help I keep vomiting since I've been on keppra and have nearly lost a stone of weight I'm nearly down to 7st (thats like going from 112pounds down to almost 100 pounds) Im tiny now :-( its starting to depress me
So I'm on 1000mg of Keppra, 500mg at 8am in the morning and again at 8pm at night since the start of last November.
Aside the very first week I started up till Christmas I had no major side effects, that was 5weeks where I noticed nothing.
But it all changed since Christmas as I have been getting sick. For the last 5weeks in particular either on Wednesday or Thursday, always those exact days, I go to bed around 11pm with bad tummy cramps. I wake up a few hrs later feeling nauseous which lasts about an hr till I end up having to vomit all my dinner out.
(it has also happened on two other occasions at weekends due to very little drinking..but that's another story)
For the following day I feel sick and unable to eat much. Its really bugging me. I have had to miss college as well as working at a creche three times because I felt so bad the day after getting sick.
I went to the doctor the other week and did a urine test that had some blood in it suggesting a kidney infection. She sent it away to the lab to make sure as I'm on the keppra. Well it came back inconclusive so I did a second test and that one then came back clear as in there was no blood that time..and NO i am NOT pregnant either.
The doc and I have no idea whats up and Im gonna see my epilepsy specialist, the guy who put me on keppra, in about a month(the waiting list is HUGE).
Anyone at all experienced something like this?? I cant find answers anywhere
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