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From Keppra to Klonopin..help!

Mon, 03/31/2008 - 11:41

I had been taking keppra for about 3 weeks at a relatively low dose, but i was suffering from depersonalization (rare side effect) i started having panic attacks and kept thinking i was about to have a seizure at all times.

so my doctor switched me to klonopin...and i hate it so far! i just need to know if these side effects pass.

i completely sedated, i can barely walk. my pupils are completely dilated and i am so incredibly dizzy it's unbarable. i feel as if i'm going insane. my hearing will completely blank out for a second, come back, then blank out again. this happens quite often at night, and i'm worried its some new type of seizure.

if theres anyone with any experience with this drug...please help! i feel like everytime i take the pill its like taking poison! i have been on it for four days now.

Comments

Re: From Keppra to Klonopin..help!

Submitted by LeslieM90 on Tue, 2008-04-01 - 12:02

wow, i'm so sorry about your fiance. in a way i can kinda simpathize, my tests come back all negative too. but 15 grand mals a day? i've never heard of anything like that! when did they start? doctors look at all the huge aspects but sometimes even the tiniest of things can cause them. like i would have seizures simply from eating ramen noodles because of the msg. so he's been checked for brain tumor?

have you asked your doctor about brain surgery? but find out when they started, maybe he's allergic to something. also, did his seizures increase throughout time? because mine increased from anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder. i was just put on cymbalta and i can already feel it bringing me back a bit. 

so they have done an EEG on him while he was having a seizure and it came back negative?

 

these are just crazy suggestions, but i thought i would throw them out there: maybe try a ketogenic diet....or even marijuana. i know that sounds really strange, but marijuana has a counter-effect on seizures. see if you can get prescription. have him try some on the onset of a seizure, it may stop it. it has worked for me before. but ask your doctor first. does he have any other illnesses?

wow, i'm so sorry about your fiance. in a way i can kinda simpathize, my tests come back all negative too. but 15 grand mals a day? i've never heard of anything like that! when did they start? doctors look at all the huge aspects but sometimes even the tiniest of things can cause them. like i would have seizures simply from eating ramen noodles because of the msg. so he's been checked for brain tumor?

have you asked your doctor about brain surgery? but find out when they started, maybe he's allergic to something. also, did his seizures increase throughout time? because mine increased from anxiety and post traumatic stress disorder. i was just put on cymbalta and i can already feel it bringing me back a bit. 

so they have done an EEG on him while he was having a seizure and it came back negative?

 

these are just crazy suggestions, but i thought i would throw them out there: maybe try a ketogenic diet....or even marijuana. i know that sounds really strange, but marijuana has a counter-effect on seizures. see if you can get prescription. have him try some on the onset of a seizure, it may stop it. it has worked for me before. but ask your doctor first. does he have any other illnesses?

Re: From Keppra to Klonopin..help!

Submitted by Orien2 on Fri, 2008-04-11 - 03:05

Kewl I'd love to try marijuana.  I guess epilepsy means I can since the worst thing already happened to me I might as well  give that a shot because I lost everything two years ago might as well mess the rest of it up.  Cause it just doesn't matter what I try to do right everything goes wrong so I've decided just screw the rules who cares about the damn consequences because they seem to hit me destroying everything no matter what I do so that gives me permission to break the rules since it can't be any worse than what I'm going through now.  If you don't care about the consequences then there aren't any.  I've done everything right never used illegals been good and still everything has gone horribly wrong so the question hangs in my mind why be good then?  What's the point?  I don't want to set a bad example for the kids who are still struggling to go home say there is no hope. You can't get out no matter what you do and you might as well get high or completely wasted and forget the whole thing.  That's not what I want to tell them or show them.   I think I'll just help the ones that are so awful no one wants them, the ones completely out of control who are the teacher's worst nightmare since any change is an improvement.   If they are already drinking beer, selling drugs, getting into serious trouble and  are getting worse every year those are the ones I'd want to help.   If you can't help then you don't take any flack because they were toast according to the system anyway. 

 

Kewl I'd love to try marijuana.  I guess epilepsy means I can since the worst thing already happened to me I might as well  give that a shot because I lost everything two years ago might as well mess the rest of it up.  Cause it just doesn't matter what I try to do right everything goes wrong so I've decided just screw the rules who cares about the damn consequences because they seem to hit me destroying everything no matter what I do so that gives me permission to break the rules since it can't be any worse than what I'm going through now.  If you don't care about the consequences then there aren't any.  I've done everything right never used illegals been good and still everything has gone horribly wrong so the question hangs in my mind why be good then?  What's the point?  I don't want to set a bad example for the kids who are still struggling to go home say there is no hope. You can't get out no matter what you do and you might as well get high or completely wasted and forget the whole thing.  That's not what I want to tell them or show them.   I think I'll just help the ones that are so awful no one wants them, the ones completely out of control who are the teacher's worst nightmare since any change is an improvement.   If they are already drinking beer, selling drugs, getting into serious trouble and  are getting worse every year those are the ones I'd want to help.   If you can't help then you don't take any flack because they were toast according to the system anyway. 

 

Re: From Keppra to Klonopin..help!

Submitted by LeslieM90 on Fri, 2008-04-11 - 15:00

im a bit confused here. its not something you have to try, but do some research, alot of doctors even think its effective. and doing marijuana doesn't mean messing your life up, there is such a thing as prescription. i only brought the mj topic up because if NOTHING is really helping its worth a shot. smoking it isn't just a means to get "wasted" it can be helpful.

but like i said, its just a suggestion, im not telling everyone to go out and buy some!

i just dont seem to react well to meds, and the keto diet was too hard. but im off of keppra due to depersonalization disorder and im back on trileptal.

im a bit confused here. its not something you have to try, but do some research, alot of doctors even think its effective. and doing marijuana doesn't mean messing your life up, there is such a thing as prescription. i only brought the mj topic up because if NOTHING is really helping its worth a shot. smoking it isn't just a means to get "wasted" it can be helpful.

but like i said, its just a suggestion, im not telling everyone to go out and buy some!

i just dont seem to react well to meds, and the keto diet was too hard. but im off of keppra due to depersonalization disorder and im back on trileptal.

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