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Experiences with weaning meds?

Sat, 01/30/2016 - 01:14

We start weaning my son's Zonisimide tomorrow. He has been on 100mg a day + 3000mg a day of Keppra for almost 4yrs. And has been seizure free with it :) He wants to try and wean again. We got him down to 100mg from 150 last year. But he got scared and thought he felt auras so we didnt wean further. But since then he has been fine.

  So we wean 25mg a week until he is off Zonisimide. The thing is he was not seizure free until we added the 100mg a Zonisimide. So it's really scary to think about what could happen. Hopefully he is outgrowing it and he can at least get off one med. But he was very hard to get under control. The

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