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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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Hello my name is Robin and I

Submitted by Froggiegurl1928 on Thu, 2017-11-16 - 16:29
Hello my name is Robin and I am new to this but I am here to reach out for help I have been living with epilepsy since I was 13 and I am now 29 and have been using keppra ever since I was diagnosed I have been told about keppra rage before not much very little and as I have gotten older it has gotten worse I no longer feel like I know who I am and I'm losing my family I have an appointment with my neurologist in January 2018 but I feel like that is not soon enough I need help and I need someone to talk to please if anyone can help me please text me or email me my number is 850- 570-1931

Not all epilepsy is genetic.

Submitted by CLewis_5a85db2f73fa5 on Thu, 2018-02-15 - 14:10
Not all epilepsy is genetic. I am an epileptic due to surgery complications and radiation that left me with this new experience and health complication. My husband and I are soon to start the journey of planning for a child and going in I feel very confident in the process and that my child will not be effected by my ailments. The key to my experience so far has been communication between practices. My neurologist speaks to my PCP, OBGYN, Gastroenterologist, Cardiologist, and any other doctor I'm seeing. The other reason that it's important to reproduce is for research. When people choose late term abortion when they learn there's the possibility of a defect they rob the world of knowledge that could have been gained. So many things are proving essential to our health community, I would not consider any ailment a 'curse'. Life is hard in general, it's important to give everyone the chance to evolve. Everyone's story and experiences with epilepsy are different. 

hello, in answer to your

Submitted by ian r on Fri, 2019-04-05 - 05:42
hello, in answer to your question i to have the same issues, one minute i am fine then i turn nasty for very trivial reasons, so my family say.  i have no remorse to the incident and i am unapologetic to the situation.  only this week my neuro-psychiatrist discovered the term Keppra rage, this could answer a lot of questions.

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