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Anyone Been Through This

Fri, 12/29/2006 - 14:51

Topic: Medication Issues

I am a 22 year old female and I was recently diagnosed with epilepsy in January of this year.I was doing very well on just topomax until November when I started having five, or six seizures a day. My mom took me to the ER and the doc put me on 300 mg. of Dylantin. Since then I have been having the worst side effects. Dizziness, tiredness, blury vision and seeing weird objects from the topomax, nausea, and extreme thirst. I keep telling myself that it's better to have side effects than to have five seizures a day, but I don't know sometimes. Has anyone gone through this before. -Jordan.

Comments

Re: Re: Re: Re: Anyone Been Through This

Submitted by missemmy on Mon, 2007-01-01 - 12:32

I agree with carrie. Smile...it increases your face value. :)

Re: Anyone Been Through This

Submitted by angel_lts on Tue, 2007-01-02 - 07:48

I felt dizzy alot when I was on Dilantin in the past too. I also ate before I took my meds. I also noticed when I went to bed too late the dizziness was worse. I would rather lower my meds than deal with the everyday side effects. take care Lisa http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/epilepsyapproach/

Re: Re: Anyone Been Through This

Submitted by JBJ1984 on Sun, 2007-01-07 - 16:50

Thanks for the help Lisa. I am starting to see some slow improvements with the Dilantin, but it's a slow process.

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