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I have just found out for the second time that Keppra is not playing nice with my liver, and that it wasn't having my gall bladder removed that caused my LFT's to go down the pan the first go round. My ALT and GGT's are both over 280 iu/l, so now I've been prescribed Lamictal (lamotriigine), which I'll be starting Friday.
The Keppra will be dropped down in 250mg steps every fortnight til I'm off it, I'm currently on 750mg twice a day. I'm also on 600mg three times a day of gabapentin, which I call 'The Hitch-hiker' as that's how I feel most the time when I'm taking it on it's own, like I'm hitch hiking in my own body. The Keppra will be forever known as 'the hair-loss liver killer' to me, tho this go round I've not lost any; last time it was hand fulls at a time.
I guess what I'd like to ask everyone, is what are their experiences of it, and what side effects you have most experienced. I know everyone is different, but after doing the see-saw of one medication going up, one going down, and feeling like roadkill thru most of it, I'd like to kinda have an idea what I may be in for; as reading the list that comes with the tablets doesn't really include the human persepctive of people currently taking it.
For the record I have left sided TLE, presenting as Complex and Simple Partial's and Secondary Generalised Tonic Clonic's. I also have severe photophobia, which Keppra helped a tiny bit.
Any help, advice and experiences would be greatly appreciated as I'm at a point where I'm totally bummed out by it all, and finding out which way is up would be a definite plus at this point.
Sally
I have just found out for the second time that Keppra is not playing nice with my liver, and that it wasn't having my gall bladder removed that caused my LFT's to go down the pan the first go round. My ALT and GGT's are both over 280 iu/l, so now I've been prescribed Lamictal (lamotriigine), which I'll be starting Friday.
The Keppra will be dropped down in 250mg steps every fortnight til I'm off it, I'm currently on 750mg twice a day. I'm also on 600mg three times a day of gabapentin, which I call 'The Hitch-hiker' as that's how I feel most the time when I'm taking it on it's own, like I'm hitch hiking in my own body. The Keppra will be forever known as 'the hair-loss liver killer' to me, tho this go round I've not lost any; last time it was hand fulls at a time.
I guess what I'd like to ask everyone, is what are their experiences of it, and what side effects you have most experienced. I know everyone is different, but after doing the see-saw of one medication going up, one going down, and feeling like roadkill thru most of it, I'd like to kinda have an idea what I may be in for; as reading the list that comes with the tablets doesn't really include the human persepctive of people currently taking it.
For the record I have left sided TLE, presenting as Complex and Simple Partial's and Secondary Generalised Tonic Clonic's. I also have severe photophobia, which Keppra helped a tiny bit.
Any help, advice and experiences would be greatly appreciated as I'm at a point where I'm totally bummed out by it all, and finding out which way is up would be a definite plus at this point.
Sally