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Someone answer my question!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Please!
Thu, 07/19/2007 - 14:52my seisures started when ı was 19 i had memory loss and i kept on asking my friends who i was and where i was so i was sent to england where i was born (ı am from cyprus)The doctor there told me without EEGs to take 200mg of tegretol CR i continued to take them until i was 24 ! Then i went to turkey and a a norologist saw me.He tested many times on me in the end he told me to take (THOUGH HE SAİD İ HAD MİLD EPİLEPSY) 500mg DEPAKİN cHRONO BT one and a half in the mornıgs and one and a half at night! 1 tekgretol in the morning and one tegretol at nıght!...And 100mg of maliasin in the mornigs and night......İN TOTAL 2100MG i take a day!...nOW i am 32 years old and have been takıng this for since i was 24!.......İ feel its too much medication for a person !İs this too much medication for a person and how much mg s a day do u guys take? Just want to know out of curiousity! thx for readıng my post!
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Re: Re: Someone answer my question!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Please!
Submitted by Belinda on Tue, 2007-07-24 - 06:21
Hi,
I'm Belinda and I've had epilepsy since I was 2.
Itake 1200MG Tegretol,2MG Klonopin,400MG,Topamax, 200MG Lyrica and 100Mg Zonnegran every other day and I have a VNS.
(a)abort (B)fail (c)retry (D)throw computer against wall
Re: Re: Someone answer my question!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Please!
Submitted by Ghebre on Wed, 2007-08-15 - 21:57
Ten years ago, I started with Dilantin, 100mg/day.
Guess What?
I went up to 630mg of Dilantin, 2000mg of Keppra,__mg of Lamictal, per day and no seziure control at all.
Finaly, after I lost my wife, my job, my home, my car and my driving license, my friend & eveything I worked for 25 years and became destitute homeless, I'm scheduled for Brain Surgery.
Though Luck, Right!
Yeah, Life sucks,,
Gerrie
However disturbing, you will have a better understanding of Epileptic disorders & seizure patients by watching my seizure videos at youtube.com/MySeizures or my seizure video/photo album link http://www1.myspace.com/reloc.cfm?c=13&journalID=271573789&friendID=131031590&Mytoken=7CC0F45C-9120-47B7-861DB22744CC234341537297 and attached seizure photo albums & back ground files.
Re: Someone answer my question!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Please!
Submitted by chants on Thu, 2007-07-19 - 16:10
I take 200mg of tegretol in the morning, 200mg at night.