Just wondering, how difficult was it when you were first put onto anti-epileptic medication?....
My journey began with carbamazepine, and I must say, the effects I suffered was as close to hell as imaginable.
During the early stages I honestly thought it was better to have seizures than suffer the effects the medication was having on me. The fatigue was unbearable, my lack of appetite, I literally couldn't eat anything and lost ALOT of weight, I became awfully frail. Some of the effects it caused are irreversible.
Then the following meds (lamotrigine followed by/with keppra) I was able to stomach without the sudden effects the first had on me.
Did anyone else go through the trauma I did with their first anti-epileptic medication?
In the broader context of things, is the average person aware of anti-epileptic medication, and the effects they have on those taking them?
I tell people they make me drowsy, but they see that as a term used as a side-effect most mild drugs like anti-histamines for hay-fever so they don't think much of it, but the term for the anti-epileptic medication is on a COMPLETELY different level. I sometimes wished they were on it to fully grasp what the term actually means.
My journey began with carbamazepine, and I must say, the effects I suffered was as close to hell as imaginable.
During the early stages I honestly thought it was better to have seizures than suffer the effects the medication was having on me. The fatigue was unbearable, my lack of appetite, I literally couldn't eat anything and lost ALOT of weight, I became awfully frail. Some of the effects it caused are irreversible.
Then the following meds (lamotrigine followed by/with keppra) I was able to stomach without the sudden effects the first had on me.
Did anyone else go through the trauma I did with their first anti-epileptic medication?
In the broader context of things, is the average person aware of anti-epileptic medication, and the effects they have on those taking them?
I tell people they make me drowsy, but they see that as a term used as a side-effect most mild drugs like anti-histamines for hay-fever so they don't think much of it, but the term for the anti-epileptic medication is on a COMPLETELY different level. I sometimes wished they were on it to fully grasp what the term actually means.
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