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Keppra and post partum depression
Tue, 05/24/2016 - 02:31Topic: Women With Epilepsy
Hi everyone, so I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced worsening depression on Keppra. My husband has been doing a lot of digging online and found a bunch or info about keppra and depression. I've felt so crummy the past 2 years or so taking Keppra. A lot has happened in my life since then so I chalked it up to situational depression. Now reading through threads on here, I'm convinced it's the keppra. My neurologist is one of the main researchers in anti seizure meds in women, particularly fond of Keppra. I switched from depakote a few years ago because we wanted to get pregnant. I also take an antidepressant which was increased when the post partum stuff kicked in. I'm so foggy, irritable, confused, exhausted, and now suicidal. Went to the ER last week for a psychiatric emergency because I couldn't get the "kill your self" tape to stop playing in my mind. I was sent home after a good pep talk that i needed to take care of myself and do something fun. Just feel so defeated. Messing up a lot at work and feeling so miserable that im going to lose my job. My husband has been so supportive but I just don't want him or my 11 month old daughter to have to deal with this. Any advice for language to use to get my neuro to listen to my pleas that Keppra is bad for me?
Yes, I had that same thing
Submitted by cbcreichelt@yahoo.com on Mon, 2016-06-13 - 17:09
Yes, I had that same thing AND I was horribly angry!! When we talked to my neuro he said it was an extremely small % of people who have that, but it does happen. I thought maybe it'd go away - he said it won't. So we switched.