kepra

I was on Keppra for about 6 months. I am not fond of it. It seemed that it made me think abit nutty. I would be traveling down the road in an MG..(Long Auras, and I had gone over 6 months without a seizure, so technically it is legal to drive in Arizona. I do not drive now because they started again after I changed from Keppra...Anyway, I found the worse problem was the thinking process. I would be driving down the highway in a very small car and see a wall ahead of me, and then think to myself, "I wonder what it would be like to smash into that wall going about 60 mph. I seemed to care about nothing, and living was one of them, so I suppose this would be depression. Well after this occurred a couple of times I kind of got scared as hell and went back to the Dr, where she took me off Keppra and on to Lamitral...The seizures are comming now about every two weeks for the last few months and everytime before 8 am on a monday...strange...but it happens...

20-30% of people on keppra become nasty. I am I am in that group

Hi. I have been on keppra for about a year and a half. Being only 19 years old and diagnosed with juvenile myoclonIc epilepsy, keppra was the first medicine my neurologist prescribed me. I was to take two 500mg tablets daily, one in the morning and one at night. I remember starting this medicine on a Wednesday night, the Dr had told me to take 2 500mg tablets, giving my body a days worth of meds all at once. I remember feeling so sleepy and relaxed, it reminded me of being on vicodine when you feel your nerves relax from the too of your head to the tip of your toes. The next morning I wake up and take only one pill and about half an hour later I was fast asleep, for the entire day. When i woke up it was time for my bedtime pill so I took it and again slept for the night. My mom tried to get me to eat something in between the time I woke up to the time for my next pill, but I was so out of it I didn't want to eat, all I wanted was sleep. By Friday I was beginning to get the hang of it so that morning I jumped in the shower and as I got out I had the feeling of passing out so I sat on the bathroob floor just in case I did faint. Sure enough I did but the only thing I remember was hearing myself scream and wake up to my knuckles white as can be. I called my mom and she was home in 15 mins from work. She called my Dr and explaned to him what had happened. He told her because of my lack of appetite and activity my body took a shock when I was in the shower which caused me to pass out. He changed my dosage from 1000mg a day to 500mg a day so I take half of a pill each day and so far it has been working. Hope this helps with what your looking for -A