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My son is 6 years old and newly diagnosed with Absence seizures. We have done a month of trileptal and if anything, his seizures have evolved and now the medication has made him sleepy. We are beginning keppra today and weaning trileptal. Has anyone out there with a child on these medications noticed any side effects? I have read about watching for anger and behaviour issues on keppra. Has anyone observed this?

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WelcomeSide effects do happen

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2015-05-12 - 14:08

WelcomeSide effects do happen to some people. I have been in drug studies and know how those side effects get written up, We were given diaries which we were to use and were required to write down ANYTHING that was unusual or different that day. Which I did. The information goes to the company who tabulates them and writes down the side effects with the percentages. Now is I have an upset stomach on a day is the upset stomach due to the medication or is it possibly due to eating Mexican or Italian food from a restraint I haven't been to?Side effects do happen and the percentage of people getting those side effects is 5-8%. You can find a lot of posts where people using keppra having KeppRAGE . Mood swings. Yup it does happen but side effects generally go away after the medication has built up to the therapeutic levels the neurologist has set. Many medications take time to build up the therapeutic levels in the body because they are not like aspirin where one size fits all. So understand that all the posts you see about keppra being a bad medication are written by 5-8% of the people taking it. The other 92-95% of the people taking it have had no problems and they don't post things if everything is going along fine. I am one of the people taking keppra and have had no problems with it.I like mothers who are concerned about their kids and I understand your concern,I would also suggest you get the My Epilepsy Diary which can be found on every page of this site. Watch the video. If you get it and use it you can give his neurologist permission to bring it up and by doing that the neurologist can bring up the graphs and other information which might help in changing dosages and medications or other procedures that can help get your son seizure free.Medication changes do take time. It can take 2-4 weeks after he is off one to have that medication completely out of his system. It takes just as long for his body to get used to the medication and for the therapeutic levels to get set. If the neurologist changes the dosage the clock starts again but this time it is shorter since the medication is already in his body. Therapeutic levels are changing and less time because levels have already been met. Which means fewer side effects if any.I do hope your son gets seizure freeJoePS I think you will be getting responses from a couple more people since they have sons or daughters using keppra and not having issues with it

WelcomeSide effects do happen to some people. I have been in drug studies and know how those side effects get written up, We were given diaries which we were to use and were required to write down ANYTHING that was unusual or different that day. Which I did. The information goes to the company who tabulates them and writes down the side effects with the percentages. Now is I have an upset stomach on a day is the upset stomach due to the medication or is it possibly due to eating Mexican or Italian food from a restraint I haven't been to?Side effects do happen and the percentage of people getting those side effects is 5-8%. You can find a lot of posts where people using keppra having KeppRAGE . Mood swings. Yup it does happen but side effects generally go away after the medication has built up to the therapeutic levels the neurologist has set. Many medications take time  to build up the therapeutic levels in the body because they are not like aspirin where one size fits all. So understand that all the posts you see about keppra being a bad medication are written by 5-8% of the people taking it. The other 92-95% of the people taking it have had no problems and they don't post things if everything is going along fine. I am one of the people taking keppra and have had no problems with it.I like mothers who are concerned about their kids and I understand your concern,I would also suggest you get the My Epilepsy Diary which can be found on every page of this site. Watch the video. If you get it and use it you can give his neurologist permission to bring it up and by doing that the neurologist can bring up the graphs and other information which might help in changing dosages and medications or other procedures that can help get your son seizure free.Medication changes do take time. It can take 2-4 weeks after he is off one to have that medication completely out of his system. It takes just as long for his body to get used to the medication and for the therapeutic levels to get set. If the neurologist changes the dosage the clock starts again but this time it is shorter since the medication is already in his body. Therapeutic levels are changing and less time because levels have already been met. Which means fewer side effects if any.I do hope your son gets seizure freeJoePS I think you will be getting responses from a couple more people since they have sons or daughters using keppra and not having issues with it

WelcomeSide effects do happen to some people. I have been in drug studies and know how those side effects get written up, We were given diaries which we were to use and were required to write down ANYTHING that was unusual or different that day. Which I did. The information goes to the company who tabulates them and writes down the side effects with the percentages. Now is I have an upset stomach on a day is the upset stomach due to the medication or is it possibly due to eating Mexican or Italian food from a restraint I haven't been to?Side effects do happen and the percentage of people getting those side effects is 5-8%. You can find a lot of posts where people using keppra having KeppRAGE . Mood swings. Yup it does happen but side effects generally go away after the medication has built up to the therapeutic levels the neurologist has set. Many medications take time to build up the therapeutic levels in the body because they are not like aspirin where one size fits all. So understand that all the posts you see about keppra being a bad medication are written by 5-8% of the people taking it. The other 92-95% of the people taking it have had no problems and they don't post things if everything is going along fine. I am one of the people taking keppra and have had no problems with it.I like mothers who are concerned about their kids and I understand your concern,I would also suggest you get the My Epilepsy Diary which can be found on every page of this site. Watch the video. If you get it and use it you can give his neurologist permission to bring it up and by doing that the neurologist can bring up the graphs and other information which might help in changing dosages and medications or other procedures that can help get your son seizure free.Medication changes do take time. It can take 2-4 weeks after he is off one to have that medication completely out of his system. It takes just as long for his body to get used to the medication and for the therapeutic levels to get set. If the neurologist changes the dosage the clock starts again but this time it is shorter since the medication is already in his body. Therapeutic levels are changing and less time because levels have already been met. Which means fewer side effects if any.I do hope your son gets seizure freeJoePS I think you will be getting responses from a couple more people since they have sons or daughters using keppra and not having issues with it

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WelcomeSide effects do happen

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2015-05-12 - 14:08

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