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dilantin 300 mg with topamax 200 mg daily
Wed, 04/20/2016 - 14:16Topic: Medication Issues
Im 23 years old and have been on 200 mg of topamax for 7 months for temporal lobe seizures with no results. Ive met with a surgeon because the seizures come from a medium size cavernous angioma in my left temporal lobe who recommends to try more medicne until he would help me. My neurologist is now recomending i start taking 300 mg of dilantin on top of the 200 mg of topamax daily. Any recommendations? Ive been having auras and seizures at least once a week.
Any recommendations? <<< YES
Submitted by just_joe on Thu, 2016-04-21 - 11:29
Any recommendations? <<< YES follow the neurologists and surgeon's commendations. They went through college and learned and have the knowledge to help people. When my doctors tell me something I listen. The first person I question is them. Not just my neurologist but my PC and cardiologist too. You might want to know that many people in here are taking more then one medication.At one time I was taking 3 different meds a day. We changed and it went down to 1 which did help. That 1 needed to be raised but since I am on the highest dosage we couldn't so we added another med and the combination has reduced the number of seizures from 2 a week to one every 8-14 days. The combination also shortened the time in those seizures from 5-8 minutes to a few seconds. The recovery time changed from 15-45 minutes to a few seconds. So yes adding medications can and has helped control seizures.Joe