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Comment from: 25-34 Female (Patient)

I have epilepsy, and I was put on Keppra when my husband and I decided to have a baby. I am currently taking 1,000 mg twice a day and have been doing great. I had no problems while I was carrying my daughter, and she has shown no signs of having any side effects from me taking the Keppra. Published: September 10 ::

Comment from: jriffelman, 35-44 Female (Patient)

I've taken several medications over a course of 13+ years and have been unsuccessful. Tegretol, Keppra, Dilantin, and Lamictal. With the amount I take daily Keppra XR, Trileptal and Lamictal (3 times a day), I wonder if I'm just wasting money and hurting my body. Petit mal and absence seizures are my types. Of course the med that seemed to be most effective (Dilantin), I'm allergic to. I've hurt myself by passing out, but if the medication isn't controlling the seizures, why torture the immune system? Published: November 02 ::

Comment from: i don't believe it, 55-64 Female (Patient)

I have just been told I am having seizures; my kind of seizures is so different from all the others I have heard about. Three years ago I went to my doctor with dizziness, weakness, and unstable walking at times. I had an MRI done, they found nothing, so I was put on Prozac which I refused to take, after three years I went to another doctor who did an EEG right after one of those dizzy spells and found out that I was having seizures. He told me I had them at first on the left side of my front lob now it is on both sides. He started me out on Dilantin 300mg, but it was making me very sick, so now I’m starting on divalproex er 500mg. If anyone out there is having dizzy spells, make your doctor listen to you, have an EEG done within 24hours, it will show if you are having seizures. Published: September 10 ::


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