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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Epilepsy / October 2003Keppra Side effects
Hi New to this site looking for information. My wife has complex partial seizure epilepsy she has been on keppra for over a year now on a dosage of 500mg per day. Recentley she started to have frequent seizures so as a result our consultant increased the medication and she now is on 2000mg per day which seems to have had an effect but she is now having considerable problems with severe headaches. Consultant hard to get hold of as we are having to go private. Local GP seen as pain extreme he prescribed new medication of 750mg Keppra twice per day and also 200mg Tegrtol retard reluctant to change to this on GPs reccomendation should we wait to see specialist and has anyone else had this extreme headache stabbing pain in right eye and side of face? Need some help wfie climbing wall. Mark Hi My wife's been on Tegretol Retard now for 16 years. Apart from some drowsiness above 600mg/day, it's been good. We have been recommended to move to Keppra now our family has been born (Specialist suggested that Tegretol Retard was sensible before family as it is well tried & tested). Not tried the Keppra yet, but probably will soon. Note: We find via the grapevine that we should avoid grapefruit with the Tegretol - (try internet search), although nothing mentioned from official sources! Chris > Hi New to this site looking for information. > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Mark Hey there i am trying to work out which medication is better for me at the moment. i am on 1200mg tegretol / day but had severe side effects: aggression, depression, impotance where the main problems. my neuro has put me on 1500mg keppra to try and get me off the tegretol, but now take 150mg / day of zoloft to combat it all. i have been a few medications over the past 4 years, avg 1 new one each year. it has driven me up the wall, my friends as well, and my parents to the point where my mum cannot handle it, that is the epilepsy and the side effects. my biggest mistake was that i changed neuro's because i wasn' happy with the old one. my new one changed my medication (at the time i was on lamitical and epilim) without any talking to. now i have a huge mess and no family to help me out. make sure that you talk to your family first before, and at your doc, then again afterwards. i didn't and now i am struggling bernie > Hi > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Chris Reply is for Poster at end (who has expired on my server) about Grapefruit and Tegretol -> ******************* > Hey there > i am trying to work out which medication is better for me at the moment. i [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > Tegretol Retard was sensible before family as it is well tried & tested). > > Not tried the Keppra yet, but probably will soon. > >****************** > > Note: We find via the grapevine that we should avoid grapefruit with the > > Tegretol - (try internet search), although nothing mentioned from official > > sources! > > Chris http://www.google.com/ Scroll to the search window, type 'tegretol and grapefruit' without the 's, click on Google Search. It should bring up about 30 posts, although some might be incidental ones like mine from 2-3 months ago. One that was pulled down was from Harvard edu http://neuro-www.mgh.harvard.edu/forum_2/EpilepsyF/GrapefruitTegretol.html
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