** Several of the seizure types (at least my Complex Partial and Simple
partial types, I only knew how severe they were or if I was still having
them by others around me witnessing them, OR if I woke up on the Floor.   I
couldn't tell from your earlier note if others had seen you still having
(absences?)  or that you were having Drop Attacks still.
  Usually we're not aware of absences if we're having them, unless someone
sees us and tells us about it, or if we do strange things that don't make
sense (like forgetting that water was put on to boil and we hadn't noticed
when the pot was dry and empty from overheating).
    Those you're having should be checked (as you said), even if it's by
another Doctor at the clinic while your Dr. is away.   I haven't used
Keppra, but others 'around here' have.   So I don't know if it's one that
can be Improved by combining it with a second pill to give benefits of both
working together.
    Also some of the Anti Ep. Meds shouldn't be stopped promptly or levels
changed w.o. the Dr. being involved.  Impression I had on the earlier post
was you might be tempted to 'self medicate'?  even though *You know your
seizures better than I or your Doctor, some of the pills do strange things
with only a 50% drop in blood levels OR a 50% increase above what was your
own therapeutic levels.   That was the context of my about stuff like you
paragraph below.   It might Not be good for you, OR with another (2nd) med,
the 2 might give you a better balance where one of the pills takes up the
slack on the seizures you're still having, while the Keppra might be already
controlling some of the ones you used to have.
   Those sorts of things (you probably know) can sometimes be checked by
comparing e.g. EEGs from before, where you're at Now, and where they (*you)
Want to be.   We often get Auras or Simple Partials as we get close to full
control of  C.P. or G.M.? seizures,  and unless those become more extreme or
are troublesome (like Drop Attacks or some of the Quick Onset types I had in
1995 and 96),  it's hard for us to know what's going on 'upstairs'.
   Low blood sugar,  Grapefruit juice (with my Tegretol), and other things
can mess up levels and control and almost look like they've struck because a
pill isn't working.   (Actually with Tegretol and Grapefruit, it does Stop
working, but I never related some of my seizures at 4 PM with the Morning
Juice I used with my Pills.   It was only after I had stopped using anything
with Grapefruit, that I found that it and Tegretol don't get along.   That
was just one example of what I was trying to describe.)
    But some of those things that can conflict might get help (for you)
from your Pharmacist, the http://efa.org medications site if you haven't
looked at it to see if there's something of use to your situation, OR
getting a Doctor re-involved if you're still not happy with the control
levels.   (I could often get to see my Pharmacist easier to look up side
effects and get a printout on a pill I used, faster than seeing the Dr. or
getting a call back from him.   I also wasn't online at the time, so my
treatment was between me, the Pharmacy and the Doctor at that time.)   /G.

*** It's O.K.  I wasn't trying to sound too 'brusque'  but we've had a few
people using e.g. Tegretol who planned or had Stopped it because they had
upset stomachs or headaches they blamed on the pill.  Since Tegretol is one
of the pills that comes with a warning to not Stop it abruptly, or reduce
the dose w.o. speaking to the Dr. I was concerned that something like that
might be the case with the Keppra, and if you intended to stop taking it
since it wasn't working.   Then restarting it might be more difficult or
take longer to get to optimum blood levels if it had been stopping (e.g.)
70% of the seizures you would have had, versus if you were Not taking
Keppra.   G./