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Keppra or CBD?

Mon, 09/11/2017 - 20:15
Hello! Advice needed ASAP! I'll give you a quick run down I am 24 years old and recently diagnosed with generalized epilepsy. Being diagnosed is literallu my biggest fear coming true ive always been afraid of having seziures and all these years ive had minor moments of blackkng out but never thought tbey were seziures until this year theyve gotten worse and my EEG showed seziure activity on both sides of my brain. My neuro prescribed me 500mg keppra (generic form) twice a day to start but I am so scared to start it due to everything I've read and heard about it and it's side effects. I've done research on CBD and wanted to give it a try but I don't know how effective it will be. I just want to do something that I know will work, also I had recently been trying to conceive and am worried what my new diagnoses means for TTC. Any advice on ether keppra or CBD would be great. Thanks in advance.

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There is a host of

Submitted by epihelp on Tue, 2017-09-12 - 12:31
There is a host of information that is well known about Keppra and other seizure medications, but very little on cannabis or CBD. While a few research studies to date look positive for a pharmaceutical grade cannabadiol, we don't know how it will work in all seizure types. Side effects can occur so it's important to look into these. Talk to your health care team about options. What's known about helpfulness, side effects and safety. There are concerns about safety of different products grown. Here is a section on cbd -http://www.epilepsy.com/learn/treating-seizures-and-epilepsy/other-treatment-approaches/medical-marijuana-and-epilepsy

I'm just nervous because I've

Submitted by Melissa1992 on Tue, 2017-09-12 - 18:03
I'm just nervous because I've never taken anything so serious and alot of people have said negative things about keppra and have told me to try CBD. I just don't know which to do

Think a little. Do people

Submitted by just_joe on Sat, 2017-09-16 - 17:45
Think a little. Do people that have been prescribes and taking a medication go to a forum and talk about their medicatins if they are working? THe answer to my question is NO they are out with friends or with family and doing other things since the medications are working.Side effects do happen. They happen with any and all medications including over the counter meds. Aspirin has killed some people.I have been using keppra for about 15 years now and have had no problems with it. I have used about 20-23 other medications or couplings of medications. Keppra is th best medication I have used in the 50+ years I have been living and dealing with seizures. CBD is being researched. But just like medications it too has side effects.Recently diagnosed means you have researched forums and used the web to find out about side effects, Have you asked your neurologist about said side effects and how many patients he has had that got them? If not Why not talk to him? I know it sounds weird but I do believe I would take the medication since it was created to stop seizures. It was tested for years before ever going on market. Generally about 8% of the people taking the medications get a side effect. Which would equate to 92% not getting a side effect. I personal never thought about side effects since when I was diagnosed there were no computers. Research was done in real physical libraries. You listened and did what your doctors said to do. If you had an issue then is when you talked to your doctor. I did have an issue with the very first medication I was given. But it was not a side effect that cause my issue. It was the dosage was too high. I was taken off it and the next week was put on the same medication at a lower dosage and it worked well

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