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Treating seizures today
Fri, 08/02/2013 - 09:10Comments
Re: Treating seizures today
Submitted by just_joe on Sat, 2013-08-03 - 14:30
You may be like I have always been. I have taken more medicine than the average person. Drug manufacturers set limits to their maxium amount. Which is why my neuros have all shook their heads when they look at the amount of meds I take. Right now I take 3-750mg of keppra BID which comes to 4500 mg a day. I also started taking an additional 200 mg of vimpat.
I try not to take anything other than meds I need for my seizures. Oh and I have A-fib too so I take a med to control the BPM so it isn't beating to fast.
Other than that I can block out pain and have gotten my blood presure down just using my mind. If you look it up we only use a small portion of our brain.
You may be like I have always been. I have taken more medicine than the average person. Drug manufacturers set limits to their maxium amount. Which is why my neuros have all shook their heads when they look at the amount of meds I take. Right now I take 3-750mg of keppra BID which comes to 4500 mg a day. I also started taking an additional 200 mg of vimpat.
I try not to take anything other than meds I need for my seizures. Oh and I have A-fib too so I take a med to control the BPM so it isn't beating to fast.
Other than that I can block out pain and have gotten my blood presure down just using my mind. If you look it up we only use a small portion of our brain.
Re: Treating seizures today
Submitted by Kathy781 on Fri, 2013-08-02 - 18:04
My problem then was, I got all the side effects but as for helping my seizures, it was like drinking water. They never improved at all on every medication I tried regardless of the dosage. It was all for nothing.