Heavy Kevy
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Will doctors recommend retrying a medication if your seizure pattern or type changes?
A few I tried didn’t hurt or help it seems.
A few I tried didn’t hurt or help it seems.
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From my own person experience, I've never had this happen.
First it was Dilantin, then that didn't seem to work, so they threw me on Dilantin and Lamictal together for a small while while weaning me off the Dilantin slowly. I was on Lamictal for 4 years and had so many breakthroughs, I'm not sure why I was even kept on it, and when I was older, then it was weaning off of Lamictal (awful) and being placed on Keppra.
If a medication didn't work, neurologists I saw never returned to it in my case because it wasn't even helping. Generally they're more likely to try prescribing something new instead.
First it was Dilantin, then that didn't seem to work, so they threw me on Dilantin and Lamictal together for a small while while weaning me off the Dilantin slowly. I was on Lamictal for 4 years and had so many breakthroughs, I'm not sure why I was even kept on it, and when I was older, then it was weaning off of Lamictal (awful) and being placed on Keppra.
If a medication didn't work, neurologists I saw never returned to it in my case because it wasn't even helping. Generally they're more likely to try prescribing something new instead.
My previous neurologist had suggested adding Neruontin/Gabapentin as a third AED to help control my complex partials. I said I wasn't interested--only because I had previously used it in conjunction with Dilantin in the 1990's (I only had simple partials then) to aid in their control, & it didn't work. I eventually dropped it.
I've taken every AED out there for simple & complex partial seizures. Whatever I'm not allergic to seems to work for a short time, then it's as though my brain becomes "immune" to them, & the breakthroughs begin. I'm currently taking 500MG Zonisamide (330am, 200pm), & 200MG Xcopri. I was fine for a few months, then the breakthrough complex partials started--I even had one day where I had 3!
I've taken every AED out there for simple & complex partial seizures. Whatever I'm not allergic to seems to work for a short time, then it's as though my brain becomes "immune" to them, & the breakthroughs begin. I'm currently taking 500MG Zonisamide (330am, 200pm), & 200MG Xcopri. I was fine for a few months, then the breakthrough complex partials started--I even had one day where I had 3!