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Keppra or CBD?
Mon, 09/11/2017 - 20:15Topic: Medication Issues
Hello! Advice needed ASAP! I'll give you a quick run down I am 24 years old and recently diagnosed with generalized epilepsy. Being diagnosed is literallu my biggest fear coming true ive always been afraid of having seziures and all these years ive had minor moments of blackkng out but never thought tbey were seziures until this year theyve gotten worse and my EEG showed seziure activity on both sides of my brain. My neuro prescribed me 500mg keppra (generic form) twice a day to start but I am so scared to start it due to everything I've read and heard about it and it's side effects. I've done research on CBD and wanted to give it a try but I don't know how effective it will be. I just want to do something that I know will work, also I had recently been trying to conceive and am worried what my new diagnoses means for TTC. Any advice on ether keppra or CBD would be great. Thanks in advance.
Comments
Why the hell are you getting
Submitted by Stephen L on Fri, 2017-09-22 - 17:28
Why the hell are you getting so defensive to her? Your passive aggressive tone isn't needed nor wanted on a place like this. -_-
Try the medication, because
Submitted by sindarintech on Sun, 2017-09-24 - 18:21
Try the medication, because it has a long documented history of helping people. Give it a couple of months for your body to adjust. Usually a good neuro will ease up your dosage over a period of time, so expect some periods where you just feel weird. Keep in mind that YOU are the final authority of what you put in your body. Different meds work different ways on different people. I got off the Keppra because it was making me too tired and groggy. That's not an acceptable 'remedy'... especially with so many other options, medication-wise. If Keppra doesn't work for you, or has negative side-effects, insist on changing your medication. But give it sufficient time for your body to adjust first. CBD is still an unproven option and is not really something you want to try all by itself. There are also a lot of variations in production, which makes it difficult to gauge dose-wise. If you want to see if it helps, use it as a supplement to your primary medication. Be careful not to overthink things... you now know for sure that you have an epilepsy diagnosis, and can plan accordingly. It's a treatable condition. I went for 20+ years not even knowing what was happening to me...
Try the medication, because
Submitted by sindarintech on Mon, 2017-09-18 - 23:39
Try the medication, because it has a long documented history of helping people. Give it a couple of months for your body to adjust. Usually a good neuro will ease up your dosage over a period of time, so expect some periods where you just feel weird. Keep in mind that YOU are the final authority of what you put in your body. Different meds work different ways on different people. I got off the Keppra because it was making me too tired and groggy. That's not an acceptable 'remedy'... especially with so many other options, medication-wise. If Keppra doesn't work for you, or has negative side-effects, insist on changing your medication. But give it sufficient time for your body to adjust first. CBD is still an unproven option and is not really something you want to try all by itself. There are also a lot of variations in production, which makes it difficult to gauge dose-wise. If you want to see if it helps, use it as a supplement to your primary medication. Be careful not to overthink things... you now know for sure that you have an epilepsy diagnosis, and can plan accordingly. It's a treatable condition. I went for 20+ years not even knowing what was happening to me...