kepra

Re: kepra

Submitted by vickiec51 on Mon, 2008-03-03 - 14:54

gratefulmouse---hey mary beth.....two weeks ago huh....hmmm...well, some of my side affects didnt happen until later actuallly.....I felt lots of energy when I first started and no sleep ...I was a little more acertive as well. I spoke my mind. then slowly I began to feel emotional...crying, depression, anxeity. I think all this came about as I had to raise my millograms and the first thing I did notice was my stomach literallly blowing out with gas and explosive diahrea.....well, I decided to research and find that keppra 500mgs and 750mgs both have iron oxide on the outside of the pill...its the covering...500 is iron oxide yellow and the other is iron oxide red....but iron oxide is ...iron....and a lot of women esp older ones cant handle iron or are sensitive to iron ...I have been for a long time...it gave me cramps and gas and diahrea....so I looked at the other millograms which is 250mgs and 1000mgs.....the 250mgs has fd&c blue 9 and some other blue color....which I dont know if its safe...but it isnt iron and doesnt cause the explosion the minute the pill hits your stomach....however, I do still have problems with my bowels taking this....as I have loose bowels but not diahrea....I have since gotten over the dizziness...so that does go away....and I do have however, depression and anxiety....I find that this happens after I eat.....why that is I dont know....it almost makes me dread eating...but by evening it isnt so bad....it doesnt stay...but if you drink a lot of water then it helps....I noted I had to stay away from green tea with caffiene....I dont drink anything or eat anything with caffiene in it as I was told not to do when i was young because of breast lumps....plus my religion has health reasons not to do caffiene...so I normally dont do caffiene but I was drinking the green tea and caused some depression.....so I quit that and got with my water adn drink plenty of it which helps with the depression and the stomach upset.....I find that when you go up or down in the millograms you go through the side affects....you have to wait it out....but it puts your life on hold...thank God I have raised my kids already ...all 5 of them....but....I am praying to feel normal one day....I have only had 3 seizures in my lifetime....no one knows why.......but that is a whole other story..right now Im only on 1750mgs....Im suppose to go to 2000mgs...I dont kn ow if i can...the side affects are awful...depression and anxiety to me are the worst....the rest can be dealt with.....I am praying that it all is temporary and goes and I can stay on it and it works....however, my stomach no longer explodes on impact of the pills.....I take 3 and a half of the blue 250mgs in the morning and evening...my head is clear and my visiion is ok now...the nausea is a little there.....the depression is off and on and the anxiety is off and on....i dont do much around my house....hopefully this will all go away and I can get back to normal ....at first I was my usual being busy cleaning house and making super.....I have to go up again to the 2000 and that will start the entire thing all over again....I am also trying to get over the pain and the injury from the fall...I was and am blessed to be alive as I fell forward and was breathing.....I was alone when my third one happened.....I felt that God was watching over me and wants me here otherwise I wou ldnt be.....I just want the depression and anxiety to go...its not always there but when it is it isnt fun.....I dont want to take an antidepressant....I got off one and it was the reason I was having seizures...getting off it caused it ....I figured once off it wouldnt happen again....it was exactly 6 mos when this last one happened....so Im hoping that it just wasnt out of my system is the reason it happened. I was put on an antidepressant beause I was allergic to premarin an estrogen after a hysterectomy...and I couldnt sleep or eat so they put me on that and I stayed and was ok...then I tried to get off three times and had seizures from getting off...my first eeg showed spiking but i just had the seizure...and after that none showed and my mri's are all ok.....actually really good......who knows....my hysterectomy took 8 hrs instead of 4-5hrs....it makes me wonder about them giving me breathing stuff ...so who knows....God bless you and keep you....I pray constantly for relief....I know when one has to go through hard things in life we stay close to God ...however, I do anyway....I pray constantly....Trust in God and pray and He will give you answers and one answer I got was to drink a lot of water..it helps with the depression and it doesnt last..it doesnt actually......walk around some.....when your bowels are emptied out by the end of the day you feel a lift in mood and.....the medicine is excreted or leaves the body through the kidneys.....God bless you... oh...one more thing...it is said to cause hairloss.....I took it before....500mgs in the morning and evening with my antidepressant that I was trying to get off...and I think I might have lost some hair....I havent so far as I just got back on it.....I have been on it since feb 1......so...brush your hair and stimulate your scalp.....see if it comes off a lot on your pillow.....maybe down the road they might come up with something better that doesnt have so many side affects...esp the depression and anxiety....if you dont have that you have hope .....but if you do have it hang in there..hold on and trust in God he will get you through.....