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please answer. Desperate...
Sun, 10/19/2014 - 00:52Topic: Medication Issues
I suggested to my doctor if I could try Valproic acid again. The first time, a doctor pull me on the full dose right awat, therefore not letting my body get use to it and got a rash.
5 years later, I am 18 with absence seizures which are short about 3 seconds.I take Lamotrigine 4 pills and 4 of Clobazam.
Anyway, I restarted Valproic acid on the lowest dose, 250 mg. My seizures are gone, now the problem...
6 days into the medication, I noticed mouth ulcers, they are not big at all and heal which is good.
I am an 18 year old girl with a lot stress and have that time of the month thing every month.
It had started on the left side of the corner then 2 or 3 teeth down was a white one which lasted for 2 days ish.
The other ones on the bottom right side are tiny.
The doctor had said, "If you see mouth ulcers call me."
To see if I have more, I have been rubbing my hands on my gums which has probably made them red.
Should I wait a bit more and leave them alone? I am now on 2 pills a day. My mom said to try to be positive.
Nothing but the ulcers have appeared. Could it be the possible stress I had about getting them.
I thought, "I hope I don't get ulcers!" And could me worrying and being stress cause this. Should I relax and leave it alone..?
You are on the lowest dosage
Submitted by just_joe on Tue, 2014-10-21 - 16:09
You are on the lowest dosage as you posted. You had been put on this med years ago on a high dosage and were taken off. OK I read your post.Is this the same neurologist you had years ago?? If not did you tell him you had been put on it a were taken off it? When did the neurolosgist tell you The doctor had said, "If you see mouth ulcers call me."??? If it was before you started the lowest dosage then call him especially if he was the first to put you on the medication.Have you checked the side effects and are ulcers one of them? If the neurologist said to call him if you get mouth ulcers then why haven't yo ucalled him???? If he was the original doc who put you on it years ago then he might know something might happen and he wants you to call him if it does start. I generally listen to my neurologist and he is generally the one to suggest the medication to use. You see he has gone to school he is the one who gets papers and information about the medications so he knows which medication works for which type of seizure. He also knows which medications work for your type of epilepsy and your type of seizures and which medications they can merge with. Do you know any of those things??? Or are you just bringing up the mediucation you want to take and telling him that is what you want?I may be old school but I do know about the kinds of seizures I might have. I also know the diagnosis I was given which I can look up hte different types of seizures I can have. I also know that most people think under control means NO FRIGGING SEIZURES when in reality there are many people who may still have seizures but to many neurologists their epilepsy is under control.