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From Keppra to Klonopin..help!
Mon, 03/31/2008 - 11:41I 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.
Re: From Keppra to Klonopin..help!
Submitted by Jenay0706 on Tue, 2009-05-05 - 14:44
so i recently just got pregnant and when I told my OB doctor that i was on Zonogram and Klonopin she was alittle iffy on the Zonogram but in complete shock that a doctor would put such a young girl (I am 22) on Klonopin. I was stunned at first, because It actually did work really well, but when she went on to tell me the side effects such as.. it can make you age in the face xtremely bad and drool on your self and was used mainly for people with psychological problems. I told her I was taking it for seizures, but also for panic attacks. The doctor told me there is lots of medicines out there to treat issues like this, and Klonopin and definatley not one of them. I was shocked and glad I did not get any bad side effects from taking this and I stopped taking this immediatley. What really got me was that the neurologist told me to continue to take the Zonogram and that it was okay being pregnant. when I did research on it.. it was categorized in one of the most worst medicne to take while being pregnant...wow... what a dumbass.