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HI NakamavaHi CQ, sounds like things are going well. It's great that you met someone else who's had the surgery -- any chance you could stay in touch with her to get updates on how she feels over the next few months? That would be useful info to have...
Hi CQ Surgery is one of the options for me and I must confess, it scares the crap out of me. Mainly because my Doc is so vehemently against it, despite the assertions of consultants - and because I've known my GP for some 20 years + he lives 3 houses off us I tend to have more trust in him.
The consultants always give me the impression that I'm dragging them off the golf course to see me - which is a mistake as I can be quite a beligerant little sod when need be (I couldn't do this job if I wasn't!).
Re: Keppra: Have you spoken to your Doc about another variant of the drug. I was first prescribed Keppra & the effects were horrendous. I had a hell of a time. Then my Doc tracked down Orlept for me and I've had no problems at all with that variant of the drug.
I've also been told that, at times, bad side effects can be down to something so idiosyncratic as the coating on the tablet. Go to your Pharmacist & put them through the third degree; check the clinical trials via. internet; check the 'BNF' (an invaluable clinical resource here. It's for Drs reference but as it's published every year, they just throw out the previous one and generally nothing changes in it, so grab yourself a copy if you can. If not e-mail British National Formulary. I'm sure they'll stick a copy in the post to you.
Col.