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Are Seizures meds making me feel psycho?please tell me I’m not alone
Thu, 10/19/2017 - 16:53Topic: Medication Issues
I’m new, 32 year old single mom with two kids. Librarian/farmer/ photographer. Since I started having seizures I lost my job due to not being able to drive. I was just diagnosed with simple/complex partial seizures. I was very resistant to try the meds but after a lot of pressure from doctors and family and the fact that I need to work I started Zonisamide Monday night, smallest dose 100mg. It didn’t seem so bad. Tuesday I started feeling really dizzy, I felt like Alice in Wonderland. I felt big and small and everything around me was moving and vibrant and it made me nauseated. Tuesday and Wednesday felt the beginnings of seizures but it’s like they got stuck and my left side of my body ( that usually convulses) hurt, Today, Thursday, I’m insanely irritated and aggravated, can’t concentrate not feeling like myself at all. I can’t eat, I feel like a tweaker ready to chew off my own tongue or anyone who comes near me. I feel like I’m losing my mind. Is this normal?
Comments
I went thru a rough patch
Submitted by Islandgirls1108 on Fri, 2017-12-29 - 17:27
I went thru a rough patch while coming off of lamictal. My partner lived with me for 2 years and I discovered that he had a gf at work.... while I was in the hospital trying to get off the medicine! Talk about a nightmare!!!! I got off it in February and kicked him out in March. I’ve had 4 sz off lamictal so now I just started this new med called aptiom 2 days ago. I hope it works!!!!
I went thru a rough patch
Submitted by Islandgirls1108 on Fri, 2017-12-29 - 17:30
I went thru a rough patch while coming off of lamictal. My partner lived with me for 2 years and I discovered that he had a gf at work.... while I was in the hospital trying to get off the medicine! Talk about a nightmare!!!! I got off it in February and kicked him out in March. I’ve had 4 sz off lamictal so now I just started this new med called aptiom 2 days ago. I hope it works!!!!
Jessica:Zonisamide is a
Submitted by TPH on Tue, 2017-11-21 - 01:10
Jessica:Zonisamide is a terrible epilepsy medication, take it from somebody who was on it. Read about all of the side effects, which includes bleeding intestines. I went through that and only learned by researching online that it was the Zonisamide causing it. There are many epilepsy medications with far fewer such effects, such as Trileptal. Keppra is also commonly prescribed, and I am on it with no issues, although some people that take it suffer some emotional issues. Topamax is also commonly prescribed, but it will seriously space you out in larger doses. I would talk to your doctor right away about the issues that you are having and switch to a different med. And by the way, you have to go off of Zonisamide gradually. Good luck!