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Wanted: Diagnosis
Thu, 05/26/2005 - 16:55Been taking between 300 and 600mg of Carbatrol a day. Have been siezure free for the last 3-4 years. Being the stubborn Greek that I am, I decided to wean myself off a couple weeks ago.
On Tuesday (after cutting the Carbatrol on Sunday) I had 2 siezures (gran mal). Need some opinions...Was this caused by dropping the medication cold turkey?
Comments
RE: Wanted: Diagnosis
Submitted by angel_lts on Fri, 2005-05-27 - 06:44
RE: Wanted: Diagnosis
Submitted by dfriedman on Fri, 2005-05-27 - 11:44
I did sorta the same thing a couple of weeks ago. I cut my carbitrol down by 1 pill a day for two days and I wound up having a week full of seizures. BAD IDEA!!
It is now apparent that you cannot go off your meds, so....don't do that again ;-)
I did sorta the same thing a couple of weeks ago. I cut my carbitrol down by 1 pill a day for two days and I wound up having a week full of seizures. BAD IDEA!!
It is now apparent that you cannot go off your meds, so....don't do that again ;-)
RE: Wanted: Diagnosis
Submitted by pongosmommy on Thu, 2005-05-26 - 16:55
possibly...Stopping all meds cold turkey? That is what the Doc's did to me to make me seize when I had my VEEG.