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Keppra is bad

Mon, 08/03/2009 - 00:19

I've been prescribed 1000mg Keppra to be taken twice daily.

Here are my side effects:

crippling morbid depression, uncontrollable anger and irritability - i have never in my life felt so depressed that i've wanted to kill myself until taking this medication. i've always been pretty upbeat, if a little irritable due to some minor everyday life stress like paying the bills. Now, i need to focus all of my daily attention just to suppress the suicidal thoughts and anger, like i'm a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. My neurologist says it should level off after 4 or5 weeks and then i'll feel "normal". Yeah, as if feeling like i want to die constantly is "normal".

loss of appetite and nausea - i have to force myself to eat because i don't get the urge anymore. if i don't eat, i get headaches from low blood sugar. Before taking the medication, i was a serious foodie, to the point of seriously considering being a chinese restaurant critic. Now, i can't even look at a pb&j sandwich without feeling sick to my stomach. My neurologist says i'm 75 pounds overweight anyway so its good for me to lose some weight. Feh. I'd rather have seizures than lose my love of food.

extreme sleepiness - i'm napping 5-6 hours in the afternoon, as well as sleeping my normal 7-8 hours at night. Tell me how 14 hours of sleep a day can possibly be good for you? My neurologist says not to talk to him about it until i have a sleep study done for sleep apnea. Bogus. I've never needed more than 6-7 hours sleep a night ever in my life until taking this blasted medication.

Those are the 3 major ones. I found that taking a multivitamin with b-supplements helped for about 2 days, then kind of just stopped working.

Anyone else wanna post their Keppra side effects? Maybe after a while, someone will listen.

 

Comments

Keep going and never give

Submitted by winb@btinternet.com on Sat, 2014-12-06 - 15:59
Keep going and never give inGood LuckAnother Mrs B xx

Hey guys, I've been on Keppra

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2014-12-18 - 04:23
Hey guys, I've been on Keppra since 2013 which was 1000mg a day, I had a seizure in September 2014 and they upped them to 1500 a day, but ever since I've been on Keppra all I wanna do is sleep, I feel exhausted all the time (which isn't like a normal 19 year old) I can sleep for hours in the day, I get stomache cramps and always feel unwell, if I get a bug it makes me feel like I'm dying it takes all of my energy, and I always feel like I'm snapping at my partner for little things, is this normal? I feel like no one understands me and my mum moans at me for sleeping a lot and thinks I'm exaggerating when I say I feel poorly (which is most of the time)Thanks Alice :)

Hi Cody, when I first started

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 2015-01-11 - 03:38
Hi Cody, when I first started taking it, it was 2013 I believe as that's when I was diagnosed as being epileptic, they don't tell you a lot they just say this would be good for you, I work Part time as a carer and it takes it all out of me, I could sleep all day if I had the choice. If I miss a max of two dose's it'll cause me to have a seizure due to me having a low brain threshold, in theory these meds have worked, but in others I get bad tummy pain, sometimes I have to take laxido as I can't go toilet regularly, it also gives you a very dry mouth if you have noticed? My advice is keep taking them see how you get on once it's been 6/7 weeks as they would be fully in your system and see how you feel about them now xx

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