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Supplements

Thu, 02/03/2005 - 15:42

Hello,

Currently I am taking care of my Mother who has seizures due to a small stroke.  She takes Keppra 2000mg/day and depakote 500mg/day (this is a new addition to her seizure meds).   We were told that is was very important to take her supplements which are a daily senior supplement,B-12, Calcium, and Folic Acid.   Does anyone else have any suggestions or sites they've visited to find supplements that actually help in reducing seizures?  

Thanks,

 

FJulian

Comments

Re: RE: Supplements

Submitted by mitor on Tue, 2008-03-25 - 11:16
Ginko Bioba is pretty good along with some others as a daily vitamin I take GNC Multi Ultra Mega Gold without iron it has tons of vitamin B in it plus a lot of other vitamins with a good amount of each, once or twice a day and I feel pretty good. Compared to medications I think cheap herbs and vitamins go a long long way when taken regularly.

Re: Supplements

Submitted by Seruzies on Wed, 2007-09-12 - 19:27
On top of my Dilantin and Lamictal, I recently started on Ginko Biloba. At this point in time, I'm willing to try anything. I can't work, can't drive, whats the difference if I have a bad reaction to an OTC Supplement.

Re: Supplements

Submitted by Eternal howl on Fri, 2007-10-05 - 03:29
Hi Fjulian, There are a whole host of supplements one could take, and I could list them all without first hand knowledge of whether they are effective or not, but I am currently conducting a personal experiment and I have begun to keep a blog on here. Feel free to have a nosy at the vits/minerals I've started on. I'm not endorcing it in anyway, but if it works, then I will. I'm not currently on a regular course of AEDs and my seizure type is mainly partial seizure but did used to get generalised (big tonic clonic) seizures. From the reading I've been doing lately, there are a whole host of herbs and minerals that may help, but if they are going to be effective, just like the drugs - what works for one person will vary to the next as we all have our own nutritional needs and our brain/body chemistries vary. I'd recommend checking out the dosages and what not to exceed before dosing up on anything as while supplements may be natural, our body is only designed to hold so much at one time. Some vits can still be some what toxic in too high doses and knowing of allergies before taking them is obviously important as some herbs won't be agreeable. One thing I have seen come up quite a bit lately in my travels - and these are more off-the-wall in terms of what we're familiar with: Skullcap Valerian Passionflower Vervain Hyssop The top three I'm trying in a combo mix of something else and the rest I've never tried.

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