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kepra
Mon, 01/23/2006 - 08:45does anyone know anything about kepra?
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Re: kepra
Submitted by Strotzyl on Mon, 2007-07-16 - 23:31
Keppra is a dream come true. I have had epilepsy since my brain surgury in 2000. Since they put me on Keppra I have been siezure free for almost three years!
Re: kepra
Submitted by susan5655 on Thu, 2013-05-02 - 12:09
How I WISH I could be siezure free for 3 years. I can't even go a month without an aura or anything else. I started having siezures at the age of 27 and have now had them for 30 years. I have tried every medication under the sun but nothing can control them. Right now I am on Keppra, Depakote ER, Lamictal, Topamax and Ativan PRN. At one time I was on Dilantin but I lost all my teeth. I went to the Cleveland Clinic for testing hoping to receive brain surgury but the siezures were happening so fast that they could not be pin pointed down. One thing I forgot to mention is that I frontal lobe, absence siezuers. I have now turned my driver's lisence in and will no longer drive for the rest of my life. I'm sure everyone feels the same as I do right now, when they first told that they had epilepsy they never cried so hard in their life and said "WHY ME GOD". The only one that truly understands what it's like to have epilepsy is someone that has it themselves, so don't you dare tell me you " UNDERSTAND CAUSE YOU ARE FULL OF ****!"
Re: kepra
Submitted by babzy on Mon, 2007-07-16 - 01:09
hi brian, i started kepra a month ago and i was hesitant to do so with the lists of side effects. however in my case those side effects were not that intense and they lasted til my body got use to the drug. as for seizure control, i can say kepra has decreased the activity as well as the intensity of a seizure. i started out with 500 ywice a day and now i take 750 twice a day..it doesnt make me tired at all. i function on less sleep now than beforre and i am more alert too. goood luck hope it works for you