Having issues with keppra

With any and all medications from a pharmacy you get information on each RX and in that sheet the side effects are listed. You can also find them by using google or bing. Oh and side effects are with any and all medications which includes over the counter medications.You do need to call your neurologist and discuss this issue with him. Your dosage may be too high and it is reduced you may be fine. But it is the neurologist that needs to make that decision. Generally side effects go away after 6-8 weeks. But not knowing if your taking your meds correctly I can't say for sure.You posted 2 times a day. Those times need to be the same time morning and evening each day you take them. If not you could be prone to breakthrough seizures. Some of the things you posted were parts of seizures I had years ago.I hope this helpsJoe

Just for people that always thing it is the medication and can't be another issue.Side effects do happen. They do happen to 5-8% of the people taking the medication. If you had problems with the medication in the first few weeks and you demanded it be switched to another medication you might have been making a mistake. It takes at least 4-6 weeks for a persons body to get used to the medication. After that period of time the side effects if any generally go away.By bad mouthing  one medication because it didn't work for you is not helping the other people who might benefit from that medication.If you did get a side effect and it didn't work for you fine. But you are one of the 5-8% that got a side effect that didn't go away. Have you ever taken in account the other 92-95% of the people taking the medication that had no problems with it. Understand that if they have no problems and are doing fine would they come here just to post things are fine and the medication works??I have used almost all the AED's and I know which ones worked better for me. I know which medications worked best for me. Some are older medications with a larger amount of side effects. The newer medications have fewer side effects.I'll stick with the ones I am taking now because they have reduced the number of seizures and the time in those seizures. One of those medications happens to be keppra or it's generic.I do know more then some people think. You see I was diagnosed 50+ years ago. I have been living and dealing with epilepsy along with the medications used to control the seizures. I have also been in drug studies so I know how those side effects get listed.