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Keppra Rage

Mon, 09/20/2010 - 20:31
I am desperately seeking advice. I am engaged and my fiance has epilepsy. We have been together 5 years, and in the past couple of years since he started taking keppra, he has drastically changed. Most of the time, he is his normal self, the person I love, but he often gets extremely irritated and freaks out, yelling and cursing, not just at me, but at other people as well. He seems to have no ability to cope with the slightest issues that would roll of most people's back without so much as a second thought. Even worse is that every so often (once a month or so) he flies into these uncontrollable rages that absolutely terrify me. We will be having a normal conversation, both in great moods, and suddenly he is kicking walls and throwing things with a blank stare like he isn't even really there. It really scares me and this never happened before the keppra. He isn't honest with his doctor about the side effects because he is too afraid to get off keppra and try something else because he thinks it will trigger seizures during the transition. Does anybody else have experience with this? If so, has anything worked? I got him to try adding B6 vitamins but it made no change. I want to get him help because I know it isn't really "him" when he goes into these fits, but I am at my wits end...Please help!

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Re: Keppra Rage

Submitted by msharris on Mon, 2011-12-12 - 08:48

I'm just learning about the side affects im in a relationship in yes i do get very depress at times sometimes i wanna just scream im on Keppra 2000mg i have complex partial seziures im always tired and somtimes i fill like nobdy cares or im just agitated about things i have kids so i tried not to have any fits around them but my spouse i dont know if he knows the change he won't say to much to me but i think he knows in a way cause i be loving him then the next it like he bothers me in i cry o lawd about anything. but yoga help me for a while now its not working im falling back into those moods again. my mom can be talking to me in she says its like i dont know where i am are not understand what she's talking about but i  been on keppra since march 2011 every increase new side affect since i been onn the 2000mg a day sleep sleep and nasuea everytime but i would try b12 in see if that help me..

 

But don't give up on him with situation like this when need a strong person beside us because of what we go through

I'm just learning about the side affects im in a relationship in yes i do get very depress at times sometimes i wanna just scream im on Keppra 2000mg i have complex partial seziures im always tired and somtimes i fill like nobdy cares or im just agitated about things i have kids so i tried not to have any fits around them but my spouse i dont know if he knows the change he won't say to much to me but i think he knows in a way cause i be loving him then the next it like he bothers me in i cry o lawd about anything. but yoga help me for a while now its not working im falling back into those moods again. my mom can be talking to me in she says its like i dont know where i am are not understand what she's talking about but i  been on keppra since march 2011 every increase new side affect since i been onn the 2000mg a day sleep sleep and nasuea everytime but i would try b12 in see if that help me..

 

But don't give up on him with situation like this when need a strong person beside us because of what we go through

This afternoon

Submitted by Andrew PINSKER on Tue, 2018-10-16 - 13:11
I had some keppra rage and got violent

This afternoon

Submitted by Andrew PINSKER on Tue, 2018-10-16 - 13:12
I had some keppra rage and got violent

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