Urinating often?

Welcome to the Coping With Epilepsy Forums

Welcome to the Coping With Epilepsy forums - a peer support community for folks dealing (directly or indirectly) with seizure disorders. You can visit the forum page to see the list of forum nodes (categories/rooms) for topics.

Please have a look around and if you like what you see, please consider registering an account and joining the discussions. When you register an account and log in, you may enjoy additional benefits including no ads, access to members only (ie. private) forum nodes and more. Registering an account is free - you have nothing to lose!

D

Dignan

Stalwart
Messages
633
Reaction score
6
Points
88
Wondering how many times a day folks on various seizure meds go urinate? I know that, like everything else, it is highly variable based on individual circumstances, but I wondered if any of you felt like your meds increased the number of times a day you had to urinate, or maybe caused it indirectly as a result meds being processed in the kidneys, affecting kidney function, or due to other effects like on sodium levels.

I currently take Keppra, and I feel like I go quite often, but I haven't really tracked it. I am going to start keeping count for the next week or so, as I feel like I am going all the time.
Any thoughts?
 
Hi Dignan,

A lot this depends on what type of seizure med a person is taking. I know I take Diamox and that is a diuretic that helps get rid of extra fluids in the body which in turn increases the amount of times in a day I have to use the restroom. I've had kidney stones
once but that was do to Tegretol. Here's wishing you the best of luck and May God Bless You!

Sue
 
Hi Dignan - I'm pretty sure there could be some kind of effect on urination. I'm currently trying an additional med for a neurogenic bladder (it's a new seizure med, too), and it helps me urinate less often, so I'm sure other drugs could react in similar ways.
 
I take 3000 mgs. of Keppra a day, also and haven't noticed an increase in urinating. However, I also have Type 1 diabetes and when my glucose is high, that's when I noticed an increase in urinating. Keppra can cause hematologic abnormalities; decrease in RBC, hemoglobin, hematocrit, which means your anemic. Something to check out.
 
I got psychological problem on that one I dread being out and no loo around I become obsessed by it.i don't think it my meds
 
I urinate and have bowel movements many times a day, not to the point where every time I see a bathroom I need to go in it though. I drink a ton of fluids a day too, at least half a gallon if not more, and I know that also has something to do with going to the bathroom often. I'm sure the meds, I am also taking keppra, play a part in it too though because I wasn't like that before I started taking them.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom