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Vimpat

Tue, 05/12/2009 - 21:33

Has anyone tried Vimpat yet?  If so, will you share your experiences with it (good and bad), decision to take it or not, etc.?  My doctor wants me to switch to it.  Thanks so much!

Comments

Re: Vimpat

Submitted by kstagg on Fri, 2009-07-24 - 11:06

Wow.

So we can have normal lives without driving. Cool. :)

Wow.

So we can have normal lives without driving. Cool. :)

Re: Vimpat

Submitted by EppSufferer on Tue, 2009-09-29 - 15:50

I'm due to go on it in November and after reading some of the stories on here, I'm glad I'll be at home incase of any side effects.

Anything has to be better than the Keppra I'm currently on which makes me depressed, cry, become suddenly agressive (and I'm usually a shy person) and say horrbile things without thinking which is completly not me.

I know some of my side effects must be due to the stresses of not having a job, but that seemed to fuel the side effects.

I'm due to go on it in November and after reading some of the stories on here, I'm glad I'll be at home incase of any side effects.

Anything has to be better than the Keppra I'm currently on which makes me depressed, cry, become suddenly agressive (and I'm usually a shy person) and say horrbile things without thinking which is completly not me.

I know some of my side effects must be due to the stresses of not having a job, but that seemed to fuel the side effects.

Re: Vimpat

Submitted by filly150 on Fri, 2010-01-08 - 14:00
I was on Vimpat for a couple of months for grand mals even though my doctor said it was for complex partials and simple partials. She said that it might work even though it wasn't for my kind of epilepsy. Some of the side effects are confusion. I noticed that right before my seizures I was having a lot of confusion. One time I left the house, and I walked about a mile away. I had no clue where I was or what I was doing there. I was waiting to see my doctor to change drugs because I had another seizure right away, and it was obvious that this was making things worse. I had another seizure. This time I had wandered outside in my pajamas in January. I LIVE IN MAINE!!! I had a seizure on my porch, was knocked unconscious, and I now am being treated for major frostbite in my right foot. I could lose a toe!!! As if I didn't have enough problems. I called my doctor right away and got an emergency appt. and started a new med. I begged her not to put another person on Vimpat again. Anyone that is recommended it, do not take it. It made my seizures worse. (I guess it does that sometimes).

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